# NTSB DCA26WA372: Airbus Canada BD500, Garbutt, Australia, September 22, 2026

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: September 23, 2026, 01:40 local (Sep 22, 2026, 15:40 UTC)
- Place: Garbutt, Australia
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Fuel related](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/190)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 142 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 203925
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA26WA372
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/203925/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA26WA372

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: Fuel related](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/190) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 361 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/190/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: VH-X4A (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AIRBUS CANADA BD500 (1A11)
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: National Jet Systems

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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