DCA26WA006

NTSB incident investigation · Boeing 737 · Cape Town, South Africa · September 22, 2025

Incident · No injuriesClass 5 · Foreign
Date
September 22, 2025, 10:27 local (10:27 UTC)
Place
Cape Town, South Africa · Destination airport coords
Injuries
192 uninjured
Phase of flight
Enroute
Aircraft
ZS-SJUBoeing 737
Defining event
Enroute-cruise: Pressure/environ sys malf/fail
Investigation class
Class 5 - No publish
NTSB office
Major Investigations Division
Lead agency
Other
Case key
201864

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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
ZS-SJU
Reported as
Boeing 737 (800)
Category
Airplane
Serial number
326342
Flight
Non-U.S., commercial
Operator
Safair
Registered owner
Safair
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Transport