- Date
- August 26, 2025
- Place
- Caracas, Venezuela
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- YV665TBoeing 727
- Defining event
- Enroute: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Aviation Engineering Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 200885
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.
Fire/smoke (non-impact)All aircraft: 504 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- YV665T
- Reported as
- Boeing 727 (200F (M))
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22609
- Built
- 1981
- Engines
- Pratt & Whiney JT8D (No. 2), turbo jetPratt & Whiney JT8D (No. 3), turbo jetPratt & Whiney JT8D (No. 1), turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Solar Cargo
- Registered owner
- Solar Cargo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- SVMI · Caracas, OF
- Destination
- SVMG · Porlamar, OF
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Equipment
- Unknown