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Asiana Airlines Flight 552 ground collision

13 May 2018 · Istanbul Atatürk Airport

Airbus A330 · Pilot error

From Atatürk Airport OZ, Ercan Airport TK to Incheon International Airport OZ, Atatürk Airport TK

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Event

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
Event fatalities
Unknown
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
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
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

Airbus A330

Aircraft type
Airbus A330
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
HL7792, TC-JMM
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Atatürk Airport OZ, Ercan Airport TKTo Incheon International Airport OZ, Atatürk Airport TK

Approximate · Estimated position: Istanbul, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The Asiana Airlines Flight 552 ground collision incident was a collision accident that occurred on 13 May 2018. Turkish Airlines Flight 969, after returning from Ercan Airport, moved to gate 218, but stopped briefly 30 m before the parking line. At that moment the right wing of the taxiing Asiana Airlines aircraft struck JMM's vertical stabiliser. As a result of this accident, HL7792's right wingtip was damaged, and because JMM had almost all of its vertical stabiliser and even its rudder damaged, hydraulic fluid leaked out and a fire broke out, but it was extinguished.

After the accident

Asiana Airlines deployed HL7775 as a replacement aircraft. Some passengers of OZ552 were endorsed to Korean Air or Turkish Airlines. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport also dispatched inspectors from the Aviation Policy Office and the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board and began investigating the circumstances of the accident.

Asiana Airlines' HL7792 was expected to be scrapped like HL7742, but after being repaired on site it came back to Korea and returned to service not long afterwards, whereas Turkish Airlines' TC-JMM, because its vertical stabiliser was completely folded by the collision, returned after 6 months following vertical stabiliser replacement and heavy maintenance.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “아시아나항공 552편 지상 충돌 사고” (revision 39545531, 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

Korean Wikipedia article: 아시아나항공 552편 지상 충돌 사고
Article
아시아나항공 552편 지상 충돌 사고
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
39545531 · 2025-04-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q65270994
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
ko Wikipedia article "아시아나항공 552편 지상 충돌 사고" (page 2529993, revision 39545531), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
flight number in the article title
Fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Korean Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.