- Date
- August 22, 2026, 05:30 local (05:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hongseong, South Korea
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 189 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- HL8061Boeing 737
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Turbulence encounter
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Boeing, GE Aerospace, ARAIB, Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 203696
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.
Turbulence encounterAll aircraft: 423 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- HL8061
- Reported as
- Boeing 737 (800)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 37514
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Operator
- Jeju Air
- Registered owner
- Jeju Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- GMP · Seoul, OF
- Destination
- CJU · Jeju City, OF