ENG23WA041

NTSB incident investigation · Airbus A320 · Almaty, Kazakhstan · September 17, 2023

IncidentClass 3 · Foreign
Date
September 17, 2023, 12:35 local (06:35 UTC)
Place
Almaty, Kazakhstan · RW Aerodrome Almaty (ALA)
Damage
Minor damage
Phase of flight
Enroute
Aircraft
EI-KBKAirbus A320
Defining event
Enroute-climb to cruise: Uncontained engine failure
Investigation class
Class 3
NTSB office
Aviation Engineering Division
Lead agency
Other
Parties
FAA AVP-100, McNair Flight Safety, Accident and Incident Investigation Department of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Air Astana, Pratt & Whitney
Case key
193149

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.

Aircraft

Registration
EI-KBK
Reported as
Airbus A320 (271N)
Category
Airplane
Serial number
09459
Built
2020
Damage
Minor damage
Flight
Non-U.S., commercial
Operator
Air Astana