ENG26WA045

NTSB incident investigation · Airbus A321 · Mérida, Mexico · September 21, 2026

Incident · No injuriesClass 5 · Foreign
Date
September 21, 2026, 13:50 local (19:50 UTC)
Place
Mérida, Mexico
Injuries
219 uninjured
Phase of flight
Enroute
Aircraft
XA-VXTAirbus A321
Defining event
Enroute-cruise: Powerplant sys/comp malf/fail
Investigation class
Class 5 - No publish
NTSB office
Aviation Engineering Division
Lead agency
Other
Case key
204076

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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.

Aircraft

Registration
XA-VXT
Reported as
Airbus A321 (271NX)