# NTSB DCA24WA059: Boeing 737, Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, December 17, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: December 17, 2023, 14:09 local (14:09 UTC)
- Place: Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa · Departure Airport
- Coordinates: -4.251667, 15.253056 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-4.2517&lon=15.2531&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Part(s) separation from AC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/338)
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: FAA/AVP100, Boeing
- NTSB case key (mKey): 193606
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA24WA059
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/193606/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA24WA059

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: Part(s) separation from AC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/338) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 563 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/338/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: TN-AKC (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (36N)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 28560
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Africa Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: FCBB, Brazzaville, OF
- Destination: FCPP, Pointe-Noire, OF
- Airport: FCBB, Maya-Maya Airport, runway 05/23, 10,827 ×  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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