Boeing B737-300 B2096

10 February 2008 · Kansai, Japan · Serious injuries

Summary

On 10 February 2008 at about 19:15 local time, a Boeing B737-300 registered B2096, operated by Air China, was involved in an accident near Kansai, Japan. 73 people were on board and one was seriously injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 10 February 2008 at 19:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Kansai, Japan
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing B737-300
Registration: B2096
Category: Airplane
Operator: Air China
Operating rule: Non-U.S., Commercial
Phase of flight: Not recorded
Route: Bejing → Osaka-Kansai
Aircraft damage: Not recorded
NTSB number: DCA08WA069

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
73	0	1	0	72

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On February 10, 2008, about 1915 local time, a Boeing 737-300, registration B2906, operating as Air China flight 161, encountered turbulence while en cruise flight about 70 nautical miles north west of Osaka-Kansai Airport, Osaka, Japan, while on a flight from Beijing, China, to Osaka. There was no damage to the airplane, and of the 73 passengers and crew, one passenger received serious injuries. The Japanese Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission (ARAIC) is investigating, and as the state of design/manufacture for the aircraft, the NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the ARAIC in their investigation. The Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing are functioning as Technical Advisors to the U.S. Accredited Representative. All inquiries for information regarding this investigation should be directed to: Director-General Secretariat of the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport 2-1-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8918 Japan E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.motnet.go.jp/araic/index.html

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record DCA08WA069, from the public aviation accident database.

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