# NTSB GAA22WA218: Learjet 35, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, July 1, 2022

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 3 · Foreign
- Date: July 1, 2022, 14:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place: Tierra del Fuego, Argentina · Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina
- Coordinates: -53.777865, -67.755149
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-53.7779&lon=-67.7551&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 4 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 105409
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA22WA218
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/105409/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA22WA218

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,703 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: LV-BPA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: LEARJET 35 (A)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 35-143
- Year built: 1978
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Airworthiness certificate: None
- Airport: SAWE, Aeropuerto Internacional Gobernador Ramón Trejo Noel
- Equipment: Unknown

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility: 6.21 statute miles
- Temperature: 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Icing: Unknown
- Turbulence: Unknown
- Observed at: SAWE
- METAR: SAWE 011700Z 29006KT CAVOK 00/M01 Q0999 RMK PP000

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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