# NTSB DCA23WA366: Airbus A320, Barcelona, Spain, July 16, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Minor injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: July 16, 2023, 09:45 local (07:45 UTC)
- Place: Barcelona, Spain
- Coordinates: 41.2971, 2.07846
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.2971&lon=2.0785&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Comm system malf/failure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/336)
- Highest injury: Minor injuries
- Injuries: 15 minor, 176 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: CIAIAC
- NTSB case key (mKey): 192653
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA366
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/192653/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA366

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Comm system malf/failure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/336) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 20 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/336/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: EC-JTR (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AIRBUS A320
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 2798
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Vueling
- Registered owner: Vueling
- Destination: Sevilla
- Airport: LEBL, Barcelona International Airport

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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