# NTSB GAA25WA070: Cessna 182, Región del Bio Bio, Chile, January 26, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 3 · Foreign
- Date: January 26, 2025, 14:04 local (14:04 UTC)
- Place: Región del Bio Bio, Chile
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Emergency descent initiated](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/130)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 2 fatal, 2 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: Continental Aerospace Technologies, FAA AVP-110, Textron Aviation
- NTSB case key (mKey): 199609
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA25WA070
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199609/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA25WA070

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute-cruise: Emergency descent initiated](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/130) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 42 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/130/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: CC-KKM (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182 (Q)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Fire: Unknown

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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