- Date
- September 14, 2026
- Place
- Ezeiza, Argentina
- Injuries
- 269 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N761AJBoeing 777-223
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 203871
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N761AJ
- Reported as
- Boeing 777-223
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Airlines
- Registered owner
- Umb Bank Na Trustee
N761AJRegistered now · Boeing 777-223Airframe modelBoeing 777-223Engine modelRolls-Royce RB-211-22 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.