- Date
- October 29, 2025, 18:16 UTC
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Defining events
- Enroute-cruise: Air traffic eventApproach-IFR final approach: Air traffic event
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Operational Factors Division
- Parties
- NATCA - PC, NATCA, FAA - EIM, FAA, Southwest Airlines - PC
- Case key
- 201937
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
N262MH · Eurocopter Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2
N280WN · Boeing 737-7H4
Aircraft · 2
- Registration
- N262MH
- Reported as
- Eurocopter Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- 9278
- Damage
- No damage
- Operator
- Metrohealth System
- Registered owner
- Metrohealth System
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- KBJJ · Wooster, OH
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Equipment
- Unknown
N262MHRegistered now · Eurocopter Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2Airframe modelEurocopter Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
- Registration
- N280WN
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-7H4
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32533
- Built
- 2007
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Southwest Airlines Co, doing business as Southwest Airlines Co
- Registered owner
- Southwest Airlines Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- BWI · Baltimore, MD
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Equipment
- ADS-B
N280WNRegistered now · Boeing 737-7H4Airframe modelBoeing 737-7H4Engine modelCFM International CFM56-7B24 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KCLE, 4 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCLE 291751Z 08014KT 10SM BKN050 BKN250 14/02 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP177 T01390017 10139 20039 58022=