Boeing 737 D-ASXE

Summary

On 5 July 2012 at about 11:00 local time, a Boeing 737 registered D-ASXE, operated by SunExpress, was involved in an accident near Frankfurt, Germany. 86 people were on board and one was seriously injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

5 July 2012 at 11:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Frankfurt, Germany

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Boeing 737

Registration

D-ASXE

Category

Airplane

Operator

SunExpress

Operating rule

Part 129: Foreign

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

NTSB number

DCA12WA104

1 person was seriously injured.

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 5 July, 2012, at approximately 1100 UTC, a SunExpress Deutschland B737-800, registration D-ASXE, encountered turbulence during cruise between Gaziantep, Turkey, and Frankfurt, Germany. Of the 86 passengers and crew onboard, one crew member received serious injuries and the airplane was not damaged. The investigation is being conducted by German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (BFU). The NTSB has appointed an Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacture and Design of the airplane. All inquiries should be directed to the BFU at: German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation Hermann-Blenk-Str. 16 38108 Braunschweig Germany Website: http://www.bfu-web.de

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.