# NTSB GAA24WA135: Cessna 152, Balneario Laguna de Gómez, Argentina, April 2, 2024

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: April 2, 2024, 17:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place: Balneario Laguna de Gómez, Argentina
- Coordinates: -34.656111, -61.031944
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-34.6561&lon=-61.0319&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- 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): 194031
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA24WA135
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/194031/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA24WA135

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute-cruise: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 3,820 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341/sequence.md)
- [Emergency descent: Off-field or emergency landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/440); cases with it: [All aircraft, 3,365 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/440/sequence.md)
- [Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/096); cases with it: [All aircraft, 2,287 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/096/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: LV-BHM (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 152 (NO SERIES EXISTS)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 15279556
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Fire: Unknown
- Flight: Personal, Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Equipment: Stall warning system

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC)
- Wind: 70° at 10 knots
- Visibility: 6 statute miles
- Temperature: 68 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Observed at: SAEZ, 123 nm away
- METAR: SAEZ 022100Z 07010KT CAVOK 20/12 Q1011 NOSIG

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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