# NTSB DCA25WA343: Airbus A320, Catania, Italy, September 20, 2025

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: September 20, 2025, 21:57 local (21:57 UTC)
- Place: Catania, Italy · Departure end of rwy 8, Location estimate from Google Maps
- Coordinates: 37.468119, 15.082077 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.4681&lon=15.0821&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Initial climb](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/350) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Initial climb: Low altitude operation/event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/220)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 6 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: ANSV, FAA AVP-110, BEA France
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201805
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA25WA343
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201805/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA25WA343

## Sequence of events

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

- [Initial climb: Low altitude operation/event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/220) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 780 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/220/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: CN-NML (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AIRBUS A320 (214)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 4848
- Year built: 2011
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Air Arabia Maroc
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport

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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