- Date
- March 4, 2010
- Place
- Taipai, Taiwan
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Aircraft
- B-18723Boeing 747
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- The Boeing Company
- Case key
- 75443
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Factual narrative
On March 4, 2010, China Airline flight 5233, a Boeing 747-400, registration B-18723 and operating as a cargo flight, experienced a tail strike during takeoff from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska. The airplane continued to its intended destination of Taoyuan International Airport (TPE/RCTP), Taipei, Taiwan. There were no injuries to the crew, and the airplane received substantial damage. The investigation is being conducted by the Taiwan Aviation Safety Council. The NTSB has assigned an Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the Country of Manufacture and Design of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- B-18723
- Reported as
- Boeing 747 (400)
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Operator
- China Airlines Ltd
- Registered owner
- China Airlines Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage
- Destination
- TPE · Taipei
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage Interantional Airpor