# NTSB DCA23WA419: Embraer 190, Napier, New Zealand, May 25, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: May 25, 2023, 11:52 local (11:52 UTC)
- Place: Napier, New Zealand
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Miscellaneous/other](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 92 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): 192914
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA419
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/192914/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA419

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: Miscellaneous/other](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,556 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: VH-IKJ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: EMBRAER 190
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Registered owner: unknown

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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