- Date
- July 22, 2010, 09:37 local (09:37 UTC)
- Place
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Injuries
- 96 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- B-18612Boeing 737
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Case key
- 77055
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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 July 22, 2010, at 0937 UTC, a China Airlines Boeing 737-800, registered in the People's Republic of China as B-18612, experienced a depressurization while enroute to Hiroshima, Japan. The event is being investigated by the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) of of Taiwan. The NTSB designated a U.S. Accredited Representative to the ASC investigation under the provisions of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 as the state of manufacture of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- B-18612
- Reported as
- Boeing 737 (800)
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- China Airlines
- Registered owner
- China Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- TPE · Hiroshima
- Destination
- RJOA · Hiroshima
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- Taoyuan International