Singapore Airlines Flight 368
Boeing 777 · Under investigation
From Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) to Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA16RA190
- 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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 241
- 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
- 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
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- 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
- 9V-SWB
- Operator
- Singapore Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Singapore Changi Airport (SIN)To Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)
- 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
- Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: Singapore Changi Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
Singapore Airlines Flight 368 was the designation of the international passenger air route between Singapore Changi Airport and Milan Malpensa Airport, operated by Singapore Airlines. On 27 June 2016, the company's Boeing 777-300ER returned to its departure airport after the crew detected an oil leak in the engine. After the emergency landing at Singapore Changi Airport, the affected engine caught fire, seriously damaging the 777's wing. There were no injuries among the 241 passengers and crew on board.
Incident
The flight took off at 2:05 SST on 27 June 2016. After two hours of flight, the captain detected a fuel leak in the 777's right engine. The crew then decided to return to Singapore Changi Airport, landing safely at around 6:50 SST As the aircraft was slowing down on the runway, a spark was seen and the right engine burst into flames. A spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said that the terminal's emergency team extinguished the fire within five minutes. There were no injuries, but the aircraft suffered serious fire damage to the right wing.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore (AAIB) is responsible for investigating air accidents in Singapore, and it opened an investigation into the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Voo Singapore Airlines 368” (revision 55318235, 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
NTSB narrative
The Air Accident Investigations Bureau (AAIB) of Singapore has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a BOEING 777 airplane that occurred on June 26, 2016. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the AAIB's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacturer and Design of the airplane and engine.
All investigative information will be released by the AAIB.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Voo Singapore Airlines 368
- Article
- Voo Singapore Airlines 368
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 55318235 · 2019-05-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q24844462
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA16RA190
- Event ID
- 20160626X35005
- Case number
- DCA16RA190
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Voo Singapore Airlines 368" (page 5268518, revision 55318235), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA16RA190 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia: 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); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA16RA190
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- NTSB record DCA16RA190: NTSB API totalFatal (the Wikipedia infobox states no total)
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Singapore Airlines Flight 368" and NTSB case DCA16RA190, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- The NTSB record dates it 2016-06-26 and the Wikipedia article 2016-06-27; Wikipedia's date is used.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.