WPR15WA225 · Boeing 737-800
Korean Airlines Boeing 737-800 · Incident: loss of control on ground during landing
From Ghani Field Airport (HL82) to Barrigada
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Event
- NTSB case
- WPR15WA225
- 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 737-800
- 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
- HL8224
- Operator
- Korean Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Narrative disagrees
- From Ghani Field Airport (HL82), BusanTo Barrigada
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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
- Loss of control on ground
- 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 · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On July 5, 2015, about 0210 local time, a Boeing 737-800, HL8224, Korean Airlines Flight 2115, had a runway excursion at A. B. Won Pat Guam International Airport. Tamuning, Guam. Korean Airlines was operating the airplane under the provisions of the Korean Civil Aviation Regulations. The 2 flight crew, 5 cabin crew, and 75 passengers were not injured; the airplane sustained minor damage. The international transport flight departed Busan, Korea. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed, and an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan had been filed.Preliminary information indicated that following an ILS approach, and after landing on runway 06R in heavy rain conditions, the airplane veered off the R/H side of the runway. The pilot corrected his trajectory, and returned the aircraft to the runway coming to a complete stop. He then asked that the aircraft be towed to the gate. Two runway edge lights, two taxiway lights, and a taxiway sign were damaged beyond repair by the impact with the aircraft.
Under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13, the National Transportation Safety Board delegated authority of the incident to the Korean Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB), Republic of Korea.
Further information can be obtained from:
Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB) Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport Republic of Korea
Phone +82-44-201-5438 Fax +82-44-201-5698 Web site www.araib.go.kr
This report is for information purposes only, and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of the Republic of Korea.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR15WA225
- Event ID
- 20150731X44501
- Case number
- WPR15WA225
- 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: 624e101b9586c70c6d7778b0b38794d4f13ce291c51c29079c4defe39177ae3e; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:36:26.249Z.