Malaysia Airlines Flight 124
Boeing 777-2H6ER
From Perth to Kuala Lumpur
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA05RA086
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Occupants
- 265
- Survivors
- 265
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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 777-2H6ER
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-MRG
- Operator
- Malaysia Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From PerthTo Kuala Lumpur
- 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
- Not recorded
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Malaysia Airlines Flight 124 was a Boeing 777-2H6ER carrying 250 passengers and 15 crew members on board on a flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur on 1 August 2005. Half an hour after take-off, 36 km northwest of Perth, the aircraft's autopilot computer suffered a serious electronic fault when the aircraft climbed dangerously; the pilot and the flight's co-pilot disconnected the autopilot, and the pilot and first officer decided to return to Perth at a speed of 350 km/h. The crew landed safely and all 265 passengers and crew survived without even a minor scratch.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “الخطوط الجوية الماليزية الرحلة 124” (revision 71710609, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Arabic Wikipedia article: الخطوط الجوية الماليزية الرحلة 124
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 71710609 · 2025-08-12 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q28715070
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA05RA086
- Event ID
- 20051012X01628
- Case number
- DCA05RA086
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ar Wikipedia article "الخطوط الجوية الماليزية الرحلة 124" (page 3276508, revision 71710609), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA05RA086 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site; country from NTSB record DCA05RA086
- Map position
- Wikipedia: none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA05RA086
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Malaysia Airlines Flight 124" and NTSB case DCA05RA086, matched by the same aircraft maker and place and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.