Aeromexico Boeing 737-8 incident
Boeing 737-8 · Incident: air traffic event on approach
From Guadalajara International Airport (GDL) to Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT)
Unreviewed · Facts and location have not been checked against the NTSB report or narrative. Independent human review pending.
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA26WA347
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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 737-8
- 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
- N173AM
- Operator
- Aeromexico
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Guadalajara International Airport (GDL), GuadalajaraTo Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT), Fresno, CA
- Aircraft age
- About 2 years (built 2024)
- 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
- Approach
- 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
- Air traffic event
- 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 · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Investigated by another country's authority; the NTSB took part and publishes no narrative.
Sources
NTSB record DCA26WA347
- Event ID
- 20260904203740
- Case number
- DCA26WA347
- Dataset
- weekly-update
- Source SHA-256
- 183c5465db62539fd349f50ea43b98143b035587f7b1dd9bde6b0554f3471ddd
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: local date, damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2026-08-09.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 0f99779c14644e05dd45da0614cc36bb5a4444bee4dc82adba092ee03423cc8f; retrieved 2026-09-17T05:27:47.422Z.