# NTSB GAA22WA206: Learjet 55, Caracas, Venezuela, June 22, 2022

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 3 · Foreign
- Date: June 22, 2022, 23:52 local (23:52 UTC)
- Place: Caracas, Venezuela · Miranda State. Mountainous terrain 4.41 nm and 154 degrees from the destination airport
- Coordinates: 10.228016, -66.790278
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=10.2280&lon=-66.7903&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Maneuvering](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/450) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Maneuvering: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 6 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: Honeywell, Bombardier Aviation
- NTSB case key (mKey): 105315
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA22WA206
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/105315/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA22WA206

## Sequence of events

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

- [Maneuvering: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md)
- [Unknown: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470); cases with it: [All aircraft, 10,189 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: YV3304 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: LEARJET 55 (C)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 145
- Year built: 1990
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: SVPC, Puerto Cabello
- Destination: SVCS, Caracas
- Equipment: Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, Data recorder

## Weather

- Temperature: 32 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Observed at: SVCS, 4 nm away
- METAR: SVCS 230003Z AUTO NIL

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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