# NTSB GAA22WA073: Piper PA38, Katukurunda, Sri Lanka, December 22, 2021

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: December 22, 2021, 13:32 local (08:02 UTC)
- Place: Katukurunda, Sri Lanka
- Coordinates: 6.554666, 79.965635
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=6.5547&lon=79.9656&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Loss of engine power (partial)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 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): 104531
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA22WA073
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/104531/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA22WA073

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute-cruise: Loss of engine power (partial)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,858 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: 4R-ASJ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA38 (112)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 38-78A022
- Damage: Minor damage
- Operator: Sakurai Aviation Ltd
- Registered owner: Sakurai Aviation Ltd

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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