# NTSB GAA21WA153: Piper PA-34-200T, Tambor, Costa Rica, April 2, 2021

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: April 2, 2021, 17:55 local (17:55 UTC)
- Place: Tambor, Costa Rica
- Coordinates: 9.7411, -85.0193 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=9.7411&lon=-85.0193&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- 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): 103368
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA21WA153
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/103368/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA21WA153

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,787 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: TI-API (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-34-200T
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 348070269
- Flight: Part 129
- Operator: Carmonair
- Registered owner: Escorpion Dorado Limitada
- Destination: MRPV, San Jose
- Airport: MRTR, runway 12

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day

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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