- Date
- July 20, 2021, 12:16 local (04:16 UTC)
- Place
- Hone Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N624UPBoeing 747-8F
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Aviation Engineering Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- FAA Aviation Accident and Incident Investigator, UPS Airline Safety Manager, GE Consulting Engineer, Commercial and BGA Flight Safety, Boeing Associate Technical Fellow Air Safety
- Case key
- 103539
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N624UP
- Reported as
- Boeing 747-8F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 63784
- Built
- 2020
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Business · Part 121
- Operator
- United Parcel Service Co
- Registered owner
- United Parcel Service Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- VHHH
- Destination
- OMDB · Dubai
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- VHHH · Hong Kong
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.