Scandinavian Airlines System Boeing 737 600 accident
Boeing 737 600 · Accident
From Oslo-Gardermoen International Airport (ENGM) to London Heathrow Airport (EGLL)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA091
- 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
- Accident
- 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
- 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 737 600
- 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
- LN-RPH
- Operator
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Oslo-Gardermoen International Airport (ENGM), OsloTo London Heathrow Airport (EGLL), London
- 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
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of London, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On August 23, 2010 about 2:15 PM local time, a Scandinavian Airlines Boeing 737-600 (registration LN-RPH), experienced turbulence while on approach to London-Heathrow Airport (EGLL), United Kingdom. One flight attendant sustained serious injuries. There were no other injuries to the other passengers and crew on board. The flight was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Oslo-Gardermoen Airport (ENGM), Gardermoen, Norway to EGLL.
The accident is being investigated by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of design and manufacture of the airplane.
All requests for information should be directed to:
Air Accidents Investigation Branch Berkshire Copse Road, Aldershot Hampshire, GU11 2HH Tel: 020 7944 3387
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA10WA091
- Event ID
- 20100901X65026
- Case number
- DCA10WA091
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e4f635d2c52926ee2d542bf2d73c8550c6857e3f7a2d39442d52318216ee4f8f; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:03:50.048Z.