- Date
- July 20, 2025, 23:05 local (13:05 UTC)
- Place
- Hobart Aerodrome, Australia
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- VH-YFYBoeing 737-800
- Defining event
- Enroute-descent: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 200623
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.
Fire/smoke (non-impact)All aircraft: 504 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- VH-YFY
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-800
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- No damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Virgin Australia
- Registered owner
- Virgin Australia