CEN17WA040 · Bombardier BD 100-1A10
Delaware Trust Co Trustee Bombardier BD 100-1A10 · Incident: runway excursion during landing
From an unrecorded airport to Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport (MPMG)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN17WA040
- 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
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Bombardier BD 100-1A10
- Aircraft type
- Bombardier BD-100
- 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
- N303CZ
- Operator
- Delaware Trust Co Trustee
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport (MPMG), Albrook
- 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., Non-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
- Landing
- 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
- Runway excursion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On November 14, 2016, about 1630 eastern standard time, a Bombardier BD-100-1A10, N303CZ, experienced a runway excursion while landing at Albrook-Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport (MPMG), Panama City, Panama. The airplane was registered to Delaware Trust Company Trustee, Wilmington, Delaware, and the operator is unknown. The four persons on board to include the pilot-in-command were not injured and the airplane sustained minor damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the incident, and an instrument flight rules flight plan had been filed. The local flight originated from an undetermined location and was destined for MPMG.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Panamanian government. Under the provisions of Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation as a State of Design, the United States has designated an accredited representative to participate in the investigation.
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, Ing. Eunides A. Pérez, Chief of Accident Office, Panamá, Unidad de Prevención e Investigación de Accidentes (UPIA).
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN17WA040
- Event ID
- 20161116X13203
- Case number
- CEN17WA040
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 7255a2588b559593e3299f53956498ef8b7f0114ba667000ad321f696563a94c; retrieved 2026-09-16T04:50:30.902Z.