# NTSB GAA26WA024: Piper PA-31 T, Pudahuel, Chile, November 13, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: November 12, 2025, 21:42 local (Nov 13, 2025, 00:42 UTC)
- Place: Pudahuel, Chile
- Coordinates: -33.383333, -70.783333
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-33.3833&lon=-70.7833&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Initial climb](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/350) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Initial climb: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/330)
- 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): 202000
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA26WA024
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/202000/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA26WA024

## Sequence of events

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

- [Initial climb: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/330) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 994 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/330/sequence.md)
- [Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300); cases with it: [All aircraft, 3,643 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: CC-CYB (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-31 T (NO SERIES)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 31T-8120028
- Year built: 1981
- Engines: Pratt & Whitney PT6A-135A turbo prop; Pratt & Whitney PT6A-135A turbo prop
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator: Sociedad Transporte Aeromedico Critico
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Airport: SCEL, Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez, runway 17, 10,500 ×  ft, unknown
- Equipment: Unknown

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC)

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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