- Date
- March 29, 2026, 13:53 local (13:53 UTC)
- Place
- Balneario de Panticosa, Spain · Annex 13 Notification and FlightRadar24 estimate
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 6 minor, 173 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- 9H-QEPBoeing 737
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Turbulence encounter
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- GE Aerospace, CIAIAC, Boeing ASI, FAA AVP-110
- Case key
- 202749
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Turbulence encounterAll aircraft: 423 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- 9H-QEP
- Reported as
- Boeing 737 (8AS)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 44834
- Built
- 2018
- Engines
- CFM International CFM56-7B26, turbo fanCFM International CFM56-7B26, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Malta Air
- Registered owner
- Ryanair Holdings
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- LPPR · Porto, OF
- Destination
- LFBP · Toulouse, OF
- Flight plan
- IFR