# NTSB ENG25WA051: Boeing 727, Caracas, Venezuela, August 26, 2025

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: August 26, 2025
- Place: Caracas, Venezuela
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute: Fire/smoke (non-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150)
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Aviation Engineering Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 200885
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ENG25WA051
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/200885/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ENG25WA051

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute: Fire/smoke (non-impact)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 504 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/150/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: YV665T (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 727 (200F (M))
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 22609
- Year built: 1981
- Engines: Pratt & Whiney JT8D (No. 2) turbo jet; Pratt & Whiney JT8D (No. 3) turbo jet; Pratt & 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

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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