Boeing 757-224 incident near Brussels, Be, August 30, 2024
On August 30, 2024 at about 9:26 am local time, a 1994 Boeing 757-224, registered N57111, was involved in an incident during approach near Brussels (Brussels Airport). 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
- August 30, 2024 · about 9:26 am local time
- Place
- Brussels, Be · Brussels Airport · map
- Type
- Incident
- Injuries
- The NTSB record does not give the injuries.
- Weather
- not recorded
- Aircraft
- Boeing 757-224, built 1994 · all 757-224s on the register
- Registration
- N57111 · registry record · serial 27301
- 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
- Altitude deviation during approach defining event
The aircraft
- Seats: 178
- Landing gear: retractable
- Engine 1: Rolls-Royc RB-211 SERIES (turbofan); 0 hours total
- Engine 2: Rolls-Royc RB-211 SERIES (turbofan); 0 hours total
- Operator: United Airlines INC
The flight
- Departed from: EWR Newark NJ
- Destination: BRU Brussels
- Flight plan: IFR
- Runway 07L, 11,936 ft by 148 ft
- A second pilot was aboard
Weather at the time
- Temperature: 0°F (-18°C), dew point 0°F (-18°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 DCA24WA334.