- Date
- September 12, 2025
- Place
- Osaka, Japan
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 159 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N39297Boeing 737-824
- Defining event
- Enroute-descent: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 201002
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N39297
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-824
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34003
- Built
- 2005
- Engines
- CFM Intl. CFM56 SERIES, turbo fanCFM Intl. CFM56 SERIES, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- United Airlines
- Registered owner
- Umb Bank Na Trustee
- Airport
- RJBB · Kansai International Airport
N39297Registered now · Boeing 737-824Airframe modelBoeing 737-824Engine modelCFM International CFM56 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.