# NTSB DCA26WA007: Boeing 737, Balice, Poland, October 12, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: October 12, 2025, 08:50 local (08:50 UTC)
- Place: Balice, Poland · airport coords
- Coordinates: 50.077778, 19.784722 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=50.0778&lon=19.7847&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Prior to flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/100) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Prior to flight: Fire/smoke (non-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 1 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: Boeing, Polish PKBWL -Panstwowa Komisja Badania Wypadków Lotniczych
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201867
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA26WA007
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201867/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA26WA007

## Sequence of events

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

- [Prior to flight: 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: EI-ILN (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (8-200)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 67064
- Damage: No damage
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Ryanair
- Registered owner: Ryanair
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: EPKK, Krakow, OF
- Destination: EGGD, Bristol, OF
- Airport: EPKK, Kraków John Paul II International Airport

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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