- Date
- April 27, 2024, 20:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- San Miguel de Cozumel, Mexico · Engine startup on taxiway from Cozumel International Airport
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Pushback/towing
- Aircraft
- N7826BBoeing 737-79P
- Defining event
- Pushback/tow-engine start-up: Powerplant sys/comp malf/fail
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Aviation Engineering Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Southwest Airlines, GE Aerospace
- Case key
- 194199
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
- N7826B
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-79P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30035
- Built
- 2003
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Southwest Airlines Co
- Registered owner
- Southwest Airlines Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Airport
- CZN · Cozumel International Airport
- Equipment
- Unknown
N7826BRegistered now · Boeing 737-79PAirframe modelBoeing 737-79PEngine modelCFM International CFM56-7B24 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.