DCA26WA017

NTSB accident investigation · Boeing 747 · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China · October 19, 2025

Accident · FatalClass 3 · Foreign
Date
October 20, 2025, 03:53 local (Oct 19, 2025, 19:53 UTC)
Place
Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China · airport coordinates
Injuries
2 fatal, 4 uninjured; on the ground: 2 fatal
Damage
Substantial damage
Phase of flight
Landing
Aircraft
TC-ACFBoeing 747
Defining event
Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
Investigation class
Class 3
NTSB office
Major Investigations Division
Lead agency
Other
Parties
Boeing, AAIB IIC, AVP-110
Case key
201888

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.

Runway excursionLanding-landing rollAll aircraft: 3,643 casesDefining event

Aircraft

Registration
TC-ACF
Reported as
Boeing 747
Category
Airplane
Damage
Substantial damage
Fire
Unknown
Flight
Non-U.S., commercial
Operator
Turkish AirACT, doing business as Emirates
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Transport
Departed
Dubai, OF
Destination
Same as departure
Airport
VHHH · Hong Kong International Airport, runway 7R, 12,467 × ft, asphalt