# NTSB GAA22WA017: Cessna 525, N498YY, Bristol, United Kingdom, October 20, 2021

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: October 20, 2021, 10:28 local (10:28 UTC)
- Place: Bristol, United Kingdom
- Coordinates: 51.382069, -2.714064
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=51.3821&lon=-2.7141&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333)
- 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): 104157
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA22WA017
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/104157/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA22WA017

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333) (defining event); cases with it: [Cessna 525, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333/sequence.md?model=2076601), [All aircraft, 410 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N498YY](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N498YY-2025-01-21), registration cancelled 2025-01-21, S/N 525-0498 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 525
- Registry model: [Cessna 525](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-525) (registry code 2076601) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 525-0498
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Airport: EGGD

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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