# NTSB GAA21WA121: Piper PA38, Bad Sobernheim, Germany, May 15, 2021

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: May 15, 2021, 11:00 local (11:00 UTC)
- Place: Bad Sobernheim, Germany
- Coordinates: 49.805867, 7.682872 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=49.8059&lon=7.6829&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Unknown](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/990) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Unknown: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 2 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 103123
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA21WA121
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/103123/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA21WA121

## Sequence of events

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

- [Unknown: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 3,820 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: D-EBEU (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA38
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Airworthiness certificate: Unknown
- Departed: Zweibrucken
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: EDRS
- 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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