# NTSB DCA25WA098: Boeing 757, Brussels, Belgium, January 16, 2025

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: January 16, 2025, 00:42 local (00:42 UTC)
- Place: Brussels, Belgium
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Wrong surface or wrong airport](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/284)
- 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): 199602
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA25WA098
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199602/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA25WA098

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: Wrong surface or wrong airport](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/284) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 56 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/284/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: D-ALER (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 757
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: EAT Leipzig

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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