Korean Air Boeing 747 fuel leak
Boeing 747-400 · Fuel leak from a fuel tank
From Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Incheon International Airport (ICN)
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
- Occurrence
- 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
Boeing 747-400
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Korean Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)To Incheon International Airport (ICN)
Approximate · Estimated position: Chicago O'Hare International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Korean Air Boeing 747 fuel leak was an accident on 15 November 2010 in which fuel leaked from the fuel tank of a Korean Air Boeing 747-400 airliner flying from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Incheon International Airport, but there were no casualties.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “대한항공 보잉 747 연료유출 사고” (revision 41156158, 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: 대한항공 보잉 747 연료유출 사고
- Article
- 대한항공 보잉 747 연료유출 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 41156158 · 2026-01-07 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q109454445
- 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 "대한항공 보잉 747 연료유출 사고" (page 2892979, revision 41156158), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- 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.