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Jet4You Boeing 737 400 incident

20 Aug 2010 · Venice, Italy

Boeing 737 400 · Incident

From Mohammed V International Airport (GMMN) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (LIPZ)

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Event

NTSB case
DCA10WA097
Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Incident
InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
API-reported fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Airline
WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
Not recorded

Boeing 737 400

Aircraft type
Boeing 737
Category
Airplane
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
CN-RPA
Operator
Jet4You
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Mohammed V International Airport (GMMN), CasablancaTo Venice Marco Polo Airport (LIPZ), Venice
Aircraft age
Not recorded
Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
Non-U.S., Commercial
Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
Not recorded
Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
Not recorded
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
None

Cause areas

No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.

Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Venice, the place the record names. Not the accident site.

NTSB narrative

On August 20, 2010, a Jet4You Boeing 737-400, registration CN-RPA, conducted an emergency descent after experiencing a rapid decompression. The flight continued on to its destination at 10,000 feet. There were no injuries to the 6 crew members onboard and the airplane received no damaged. The repositioning flight was enroute from Casablanca - Mohammed V International Airport (GMMN), Casablanca, Morocco, to Venice - Marco Polo International Airport (LIPZ), Venice, Italy.

The investigation is being conducted by the Italian Agenzia nazionale per la sicurezza del volo (ANSV). The NTSB has appointed an Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the Country of Manufacture and Design of the airplane.

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record DCA10WA097
Event ID
20100924X55851
Case number
DCA10WA097
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
  • Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
  • Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
  • The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: c64ef8f6c2a6728f9ebfafec1166b2f831c5c16e53a25f8956b8129b76faf379; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:20:31.998Z.