- Date
- January 18, 2023
- Place
- Sydney, Australia · Engine failure occurred over Tasman Sea during cruise. ~278 NM from Auckland
- Injuries
- 152 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- VH-XZBBoeing 737
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Powerplant sys/comp malf/fail
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Aviation Engineering Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Boeing, GE Aviation, ATSB
- Case key
- 106601
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
- VH-XZB
- Reported as
- Boeing 737 (838)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 39360
- Damage
- No damage
- Operator
- Qantas
- Departed
- NZAA · Auckland, OF
- Destination
- YSSY · Sydney, OF