Boeing 737 B-18612

Summary

On 22 July 2010 at about 09:37 local time, a Boeing 737 registered B-18612, operated by China Airlines, was involved in an incident near Taipei, Taiwan. 96 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

22 July 2010 at 09:37

Classification

Incident

Location

Taipei, Taiwan

Nearest airport

Taoyuan International

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Boeing 737

Registration

B-18612

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

China Airlines

Operating rule

Non-U.S., Commercial

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Hiroshima → Hiroshima

Aircraft damage

Minor

NTSB number

DCA10WA086

Nobody was 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 July 22, 2010, at 0937 UTC, a China Airlines Boeing 737-800, registered in the People's Republic of China as B-18612, experienced a depressurization while enroute to Hiroshima, Japan. The event is being investigated by the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) of of Taiwan. The NTSB designated a U.S. Accredited Representative to the ASC investigation under the provisions of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 as the state of manufacture of the airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.