# NTSB DCA23WA313: Airbus A330, Grand Anse Village, Seychelles, February 3, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Serious injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: February 3, 2023
- Place: Grand Anse Village, Seychelles
- Coordinates: -4.731983, 55.395095
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-4.7320&lon=55.3951&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute: Turbulence encounter](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/360)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 5 serious, 17 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 192363
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA313
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/192363/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA313

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Enroute: Turbulence encounter](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/360) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 423 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/360/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: D-ANRA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AIRBUS A330
- Category: Airplane
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Departed: Frankfurt
- Destination: Port Louis

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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