# NTSB DCA24WA045: Boeing 737, Quito, Ecuador, December 19, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: December 19, 2023, 17:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place: Quito, Ecuador · Destination Airport
- Coordinates: -0.1133, -78.3586 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-0.1133&lon=-78.3586&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach-IFR final approach: Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333)
- 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): 193549
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA24WA045
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/193549/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA24WA045

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach-IFR final approach: Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 410 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: HK-5434 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (400)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Aerosucre
- Registered owner: Aerosucre
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: BOG, Bogota, OF
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: UIO, Mariscal Sucre International Airport, runway 36, 13,451 ×  ft, asphalt

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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