# NTSB GAA25WA164: Robinson R44, International Waters, Ecuador, May 15, 2025

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: May 15, 2025, 08:00 local (08:00 UTC)
- Place: International Waters, Ecuador
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute: Loss of engine power (partial)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 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): 200216
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA25WA164
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/200216/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA25WA164

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute: Loss of engine power (partial)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,858 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/342/sequence.md)
- [Enroute: Ditching](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/441); cases with it: [All aircraft, 186 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/441/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: XA-VED (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: ROBINSON R44 (UNDESIGNATED SERIES)
- Category: Helicopter
- Damage: No 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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