# NTSB GAA23WA050: Air Tractor AT802, Galvarino, Chile, December 31, 2022

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: December 31, 2022, 19:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place: Galvarino, Chile
- Coordinates: -38.4161, -72.7824 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-38.4161&lon=-72.7824&mi=10
- 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): 106529
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA23WA050
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106529/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA23WA050

## Sequence of events

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

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

## Aircraft

- Registration: EC-LHJ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AIR TRACTOR AT802 (UNDESIGNATED SERIES)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Firefighting, Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: SAAMA AVIACION SpAc
- Registered owner: SAAMA AVIACION SpA

## 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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