- Date
- January 12, 2020
- Place
- Fukuoka, Japan
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 173 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- HL8243Boeing 737
- Defining event
- Enroute-climb to cruise: Turbulence encounter
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 100806
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.
Turbulence encounterAll aircraft: 423 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The government of Japan has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a BOEING 737 airplane that occurred on January 12, 2020. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Japan's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of Japan.
Aircraft
- Registration
- HL8243
- Reported as
- Boeing 737 (8Q8)
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Jin Air
- Registered owner
- Jin Air