# NTSB GAA24WA309: Marquart MA5, Sussex, United Kingdom, September 15, 2024

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: September 15, 2024, 13:25 local (13:25 UTC)
- Place: Sussex, United Kingdom
- Coordinates: 50.8581, -0.7549 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=50.8581&lon=-0.7549&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Unknown](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/990) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Unknown: Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333)
- 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
- Parties: AAIB UK
- NTSB case key (mKey): 195368
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA24WA309
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/195368/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA24WA309

## Sequence of events

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

- [Unknown: Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 410 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: G-BHBT (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: MARQUART MA5
- Category: Airplane, amateur-built
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial

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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