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Boeing 737-823 incident near Belize City, Bz, March 30, 2023

On March 30, 2023 at about 2:00 am local time, a 2000 Boeing 737-823, registered N940AN, was involved in an incident near Belize City. It was flown under scheduled airline rules (Part 121). The NTSB record does not give the injuries.

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The NTSB's probable cause their words, unchanged

The NTSB has not yet published a probable cause for this incident. Investigations usually take one to two years; this page updates when the final report is released.

Source: NTSB aviation accident database, copy made October 4, 2026. Docket and reports at the NTSB.

What the record shows

Date
March 30, 2023 · about 2:00 am local time
Place
Belize City, Bz
Type
Incident
Injuries
The NTSB record does not give the injuries.
Weather
not recorded
Aircraft
Boeing 737-823, built 2000 · all 737-823s on the register
Registration
N940AN · registry record · serial 30598
Damage
Not recorded
Flight
Flight · scheduled airline rules (Part 121)

The factual record from the NTSB's investigation tables, in plain English

What happened, in order

  1. 350341 during loss of engine power

The aircraft

  • Seats: 162
  • Landing gear: fixed
  • Operator: American Airlines
  • Operating certificate: in the vicinity

The flight

  • Departed from: bze Belize City
  • Destination: Miami FL

Weather at the time

  • Temperature: 0°C, dew point 0°C

About this page

Everything above comes from the NTSB's public accident database: the narrative, probable cause and findings are the NTSB's own words, and the coded tables behind its report (pilot, aircraft, flight, weather, injuries, sequence of events) are written out in plain English. Pilots' ages, home towns and medical details are left out on purpose. The docket at the NTSB holds the report as a PDF and the investigation's photographs and documents. This site never names pilots, passengers or anyone else involved. A preliminary report describes what is known soon after the event and can change; the final report, with the probable cause, usually follows one to two years later and this page is refreshed when it does. Case number DCA23WA222.