ENG09RA019 · Boeing 737 4HC
Malaysian Airlines System Berhad Boeing 737 4HC · Incident: aircraft structural failure during pushback
From Kuching International Airport (KCH) to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (WMKK)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG09RA019
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 737 4HC
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 9M-MMR
- Operator
- Malaysian Airlines System Berhad
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kuching International Airport (KCH), KuchingTo Kuala Lumpur International Airport (WMKK), Sepang
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Unknown
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Pushback/towing
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Aircraft structural failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On October 2, 2009, about 0818 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) a Malaysia Airlines, Boeing 737-400 airplane, registration 9M-MMR, suffered a collapsed left main landing gear during pushback from the gate at Kuching International Airport, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The airplane came to rest on the left engine nacelle.
The incident investigation investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Malaysia. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION, MALAYSIA No. 27, Persiaran Perdana, Level 1 - 4, Block Podium, Precinct 4, 62618 Putrajaya, MALAYSIA Tel : +60-3-8871 4000 Fax : +60-3-8890 1640 www.dca.gov.my
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Malaysia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG09RA019
- Event ID
- 20091005X53525
- Case number
- ENG09RA019
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b5d53a0e3f5dc9105d890ed728c6a53fa28b17c1d7d2f7c15f0db2dfb0739549; retrieved 2026-09-15T13:22:51.805Z.