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Air Force No. 1 diversion

12 Mar 2011 · West coast

Boeing 747 · Faulty bolt connection

From Seoul Air Base to Dubai International Airport

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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
Unknown
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
Military

Boeing 747

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
HL7465
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Seoul Air BaseTo Dubai International Airport

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

The Air Force No. 1 diversion was an incident on 12 March 2011 in which Air Force No. 1, which had departed from Seoul Air Base for Dubai International Airport, returned to Incheon International Airport after noise and vibration occurred in the lower part of the airframe at around the time it had passed Gunsan and reached the west coast, about 30 minutes after takeoff. Former President Lee Myung-bak was on board, and it arrived in Dubai about 2 hours late.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “공군1호기 회항 사고” (revision 41977819, 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: 공군1호기 회항 사고
Article
공군1호기 회항 사고
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
41977819 · 2026-06-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q109460811
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 "공군1호기 회항 사고" (page 2931714, revision 41977819), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
none
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 named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
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.