- Date
- August 2, 2026, 14:22 local (14:22 UTC)
- Place
- Changzhi, China
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- VQ-BBMBoeing 747
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Turbulence encounter
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 203712
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.
Turbulence encounterAll aircraft: 423 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- VQ-BBM
- Reported as
- Boeing 747 (8F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 62709
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Operator
- Silk Way West Airlines
- Registered owner
- Silk Way West Airlines
- Departed
- GYD · Baku, OF
- Destination
- CGO · Zhengzhou, OF