# NTSB DCA24WA332: Boeing 777, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, March 26, 2024

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: March 26, 2024, 04:40 local (01:40 UTC)
- Place: Madinah, Saudi Arabia · departure (and diversion) airport coordinates
- Coordinates: 24.553333, 39.705 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=24.5533&lon=39.7050&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute: Fire/smoke (non-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 94 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): 200528
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA24WA332
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/200528/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA24WA332

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute: Fire/smoke (non-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 504 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: TC-LKA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 777 (300)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Turkish Airlines
- Registered owner: Turkish Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Destination: LTFM, Istanbul, 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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