# NTSB GAA25WA197: Piper PA31, Meekatharra, Australia, June 5, 2025

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: June 5, 2025, 10:31 local (02:31 UTC)
- Place: Meekatharra, Australia
- Coordinates: -26.632071, 118.266029
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-26.6321&lon=118.2660&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 3 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): 200438
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA25WA197
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/200438/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA25WA197

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: 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)

## Aircraft

- Registration: VH-PGO (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31 (350)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 31-7852109
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., 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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