# NTSB GAA24WA131: Beech E90, Lote Ocho, Mexico, February 11, 2024

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: February 11, 2024, 11:22 local (17:22 UTC)
- Place: Lote Ocho, Mexico
- Coordinates: 17.466667, -92.133333 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=17.4667&lon=-92.1333&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 9 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: AFAC
- NTSB case key (mKey): 194016
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA24WA131
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/194016/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA24WA131

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,074 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/120/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: XB-SKA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH E90
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: LW-43
- Year built: 1979
- Flight: Business, Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Comercializadora Masvi
- Airworthiness certificate: Unknown
- Airport: MMPQ, Palenque International Airport
- Equipment: Auto-pilot, ADS-B

## Weather

- Wind: calm
- Temperature: 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter: 29.60 inHg
- Observed at: MMPQ
- METAR: METAR MMPQ 111950Z 00000KT 6SM SKC 32/23 A2960 RMK HZY MSGTX MMMX=

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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