# NTSB GAA23WA158: Cessna 172, Monagas, Venezuela, May 27, 2023

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: May 27, 2023, 14:08 local (14:08 UTC)
- Place: Monagas, Venezuela
- Coordinates: 9.75093, -63.15454 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=9.7509&lon=-63.1545&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 2 fatal
- 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): 192264
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA23WA158
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/192264/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA23WA158

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: 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: YV179E (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172 (L)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Instructional, Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Departed: SVMT, Monagas, OF
- Airport: SVMT, Gerneral Jose Tadeo Monagas

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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