# NTSB GAA23WA096: Pitts S1S, Trenque Lauquen, Argentina, March 4, 2023

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: March 4, 2023, 19:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place: Trenque Lauquen, Argentina · On Airport
- Coordinates: -36.014167, -62.692222
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-36.0142&lon=-62.6922&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Maneuvering](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/450) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Maneuvering-aerobatics: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: JST
- NTSB case key (mKey): 106893
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA23WA096
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106893/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA23WA096

## Sequence of events

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

- [Maneuvering-aerobatics: 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)

## Aircraft

- Registration: LX-X768 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PITTS S1S
- Category: Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number: 446-H
- Year built: 1990
- Damage: Destroyed
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed: LAU, Trenque Lauque
- Destination: LAU, Trenque Lauque
- Airport: LAU, Aeroclub de Planeadores Trenque Lauquen

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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