Jett8 Airlines Cargo Pte Boeing 747 200F incident
Boeing 747 200F · Incident
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Event
- NTSB case
- ENG10RA009
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Airline
- 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 747 200F
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- 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
- JV-JEB Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Jett8 Airlines Cargo Pte
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- 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
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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 December 17, 2009, a Boeing B747-200F airplane, Reg. 9V-JEB, operated by Jett8 Cargo, experienced a commanded engine in-flight shutdown and air turn back to Changi Airport, Singapore,following an uncontained LPT failure of its No. 4 GE CF6-50 engine, at about 7000 ft. Post-event airplane inspection found impact damage to the lower RH wing/pylon, aft RH cargo door, and vertical stabilizer, and that the aft end of the No. 4 engine was missing all components aft of the S3 nozzles. No injuries were reported.
This accident is being investigated by Singapore's Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB).
Investigator in Charge: Mr. Chow Wan Chong Air Accident Investigation Bureau #048-058 Passenger Terminal Building 2 Singapore Changi Airport Republic of Singapore
AAIB postal address: Changi Airport Post Office P O Box 1005 Singapore 918155 Republic of Singapore
AAIB website: http://www.mot.gov.sg/AAIB/about.htm
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Republic of Singapore.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG10RA009
- Event ID
- 20100106X21356
- Case number
- ENG10RA009
- 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: 8eeb4a7876ac56b1157a31851f50ff4ad39dfb06c4f6b1f4cf34bbf5e1d94292; retrieved 2026-09-15T13:36:32.025Z.