# NTSB DCA26WA344: Boeing 737, Mascot, Australia, August 16, 2026

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Foreign investigation
- Date: August 16, 2026, 23:29 local (23:29 UTC)
- Place: Mascot, Australia
- Phase of flight: [Taxi](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/250) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Taxi: Air traffic event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/100)
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 203730
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA26WA344
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/203730/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA26WA344

## Sequence of events

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

- [Taxi: Air traffic event](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/100) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 115 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/100/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: VH-IXJ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial

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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