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Thomsonfly Airways Boeing 757 incident

17 May 2013 · Reus, Spain

Boeing 757 · Incident

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Event

NTSB case
DCA13WA102
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 757

Aircraft type
Boeing 757
Category
Airplane · from aircraft type
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
G-OOBE
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded
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
Part 129: Foreign
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 Reus, the place the record names. Not the accident site.

NTSB narrative

On 17 May, 2013, at about 0703 UTC, a B757-200, registration G-OOBE, operated by Thomson Airways, was on approach and cleared to land at Reus Airport (LERS), Spain, was forced to perform a go-around due to a Diamond DA20, registration EC-IIT, that was present on the runway. The airplane performed the go-around and landed normally.

The incident is being investigated by the CIAIAC of Spain. The NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative as the state of manufacture of the incident aircraft under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13. All inquiries should be directed to the CIAIAC at the following:

COMISIÓN DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE ACCIDENTES E INCIDENTES DE AVIACIÓN CIVIL (CIAIAC) MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO Cl FRUELA, 6 28011 MADRID TEL: 91 5978960 FAX 91 4635535

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record DCA13WA102
Event ID
20130607X45410
Case number
DCA13WA102
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 UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: 47236e792c08bd620f32c57cb979397bae381cdda4d03586f37ca3d18d44008b; retrieved 2026-09-15T21:48:20.581Z.