DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216
DHL de Guatemala for DHL Aero Expreso Boeing 757-27A (PCF) · Hydraulic failure followed by runway excursion
From Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) to La Aurora International Airport (GUA)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA22WA109
- 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
- Accident
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 2
- Survivors
- 2
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- 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 757-27A (PCF)
- Flight
- L37216
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 757
- 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
- HP-2010DAE
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)To La Aurora International Airport (GUA)
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216 was an international cargo flight between Costa Rica's Juan Santamaría International Airport and Guatemala City's La Aurora International Airport. On 7 April 2022, the Boeing 757 suffered a hydraulic failure, and crashed on landing at the Costa Rican airport. Neither of the two pilots was injured.
Crash
The flight took off at 9:34 AM local time (UTC−6:00) from Juan Santamaría International Airport to La Aurora International Airport to deliver cargo. Over the Costa Rican town of Muelle de San Carlos, the crew declared an emergency for hydraulic problems. After flying a holding pattern to empty the aircraft's fuel tanks, they returned to the departure airport and touched down at 10:24 am local time. At 10:25, the aircraft entered a right turn that the crew could not control, causing the aircraft to depart the runway.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The final report by the Costa Rican Technical Council for Civil Aviation (CETAC) was released on 22 September 2023, a year and a half after the accident.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216
- Article
- DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216
- Revision
- 1359576780 · 2026-06-16 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q111524038
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA22WA109
- Event ID
- 20220407104906
- Case number
- DCA22WA109
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216" (page 70491560, revision 1359576780); merged with NTSB case DCA22WA109 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA22WA109
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216" and NTSB case DCA22WA109, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.