# NTSB DCA23WA377: Boeing 737, Le Mans, France, July 21, 2023

- Type: NTSB occurrence investigation
- Classification: Occurrence · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: July 21, 2023, 08:30 local (06:30 UTC)
- Place: Le Mans, France · estimated as between Le Mans and Limoges, France
- Coordinates: 46.796434, 0.904221 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=46.7964&lon=0.9042&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute: Air traffic event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/100)
- 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): 192688
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA377
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/192688/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA377

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute: Air traffic event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/100) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 115 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/100/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: EC-NGC (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (8)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 28236
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Albastar Airlines
- Registered owner: Albastar Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: STN, London, OF
- Destination: LDE, Tarbes, OF

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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