Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 777 300 incident
Boeing 777 300 · Incident
From King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED) to King Khalid International Airport (RUH)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG13WA024
- 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
- 0
- 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 777 300
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- 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
- HZ-AK16
- Operator
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED), Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaTo King Khalid International Airport (RUH), Riyadh
- 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.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Jeddah, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On April 28, 2013 a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 777-300, HZ-AK16, equipped with two General Electric GE90-115B engines had been pushed back from the gate and was in the process of starting the No. 2 engine when the engine unexpectedly accelerated to a high power setting. The aircraft moved forward and could not be stopped with the brakes before it hit a parked push back tractor severely damaging the lower No. 2 engine nose cowl.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) is investigating the incident. As the state of manufacture of the engines and some airplane components, the NTSB has designated a United States Accredited Representative under the provisions of Annex 13 to the Convention of Civil Aviation to assist the GACA in the investigation.
All inquiries concerning this incident should be directed to the GACA at:
General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) Safety Department GACA – Safety & Economic Regulations P.O. Box 887 Jeddah 21241 Saudi Arabia
Tel.: (966) 2 685-5515 / 5494 (966) 5 04626707 / 48695853 (mobile) E-mail:sd@gaca.gov.sa Fax: (966) 2 685-5507 Website:www.gaca.gov.sa
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG13WA024
- Event ID
- 20130507X80356
- Case number
- ENG13WA024
- 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: 1e122181f8dc54a6d192eff7ac72922b899687d7f804bcff6c742428d3d2093e; retrieved 2026-09-15T21:27:18.667Z.