- Date
- August 27, 2026, 01:08 UTC
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 129 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N884UAAirbus A319-132
- Defining event
- Enroute-descent: Clear air turbulence encounter
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203702
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N884UA
- Reported as
- Airbus A319-132
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2579
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 52,975
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- United Airlines
- Registered owner
- Umb Bank Na Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 7, 2026
- Departed
- Minneapolis, MN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Data recorder
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 160° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- KIAH, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KIAH 280053Z 16012KT 10SM FEW050 FEW085 BKN250 32/24 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP120 T03220244=