Boeing 787 accident in Munich
Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner · Investigation ongoing
From Munich (Germany) to Hanoi (Vietnam)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA26WA311
- 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
- 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
- 287
- 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 787 Dreamliner
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 787
- 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
- VN-A867
- Operator
- Vietnam Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Munich (Germany)To Hanoi (Vietnam)
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Runway excursion
- 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.
Approximate · Estimated position: Munich, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Boeing 787 accident in Munich was an aviation accident that occurred on 15 August 2026. A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner of Vietnam Airlines, operating flight VN34 on the Munich — Hanoi route, experienced problems gaining speed during its take-off run along the runway; at the end of the runway the tail section of the airliner struck the runway surface, and during the approach for landing four tyres of its main landing gear burst. None of the 287 people on board were injured.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation of the incident is being conducted by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU). The flight recorders (flight data and cockpit voice) were removed and sent to Braunschweig for readout. The first interim report is expected to be issued in a few weeks, and the final one in a few months.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Gia Tuc instructed the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam (which oversees civil aviation), together with the Ministry of Finance and the German aviation authorities, to carry out a comprehensive investigation to establish the causes, determine the responsibility of the parties and develop measures to prevent similar incidents.
Aviation expert Heinrich Großbongardt believes that the situation could have led to a disaster with hundreds of victims if the pilots had not managed to get the aircraft off the ground. He also notes that the incident does not call into question the reliability of the Boeing 787 model, calling it an "absolutely safe commercial aircraft".
The following versions are being considered as possible causes of the acceleration problem:
An error in calculating the take-off weight and the required engine power setting.
A malfunction of the braking system or landing gear, including possible locking of the brakes on the right strut.
A malfunction of the electric actuators of the brake mechanism (electric brake actuator, EBA).
Investigators will also have to assess the actions and situational perception of the pilots, in particular why they did not reject the take-off earlier.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Авария Boeing 787 в Мюнхене” (revision 155053629, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Авария Boeing 787 в Мюнхене
- Article
- Авария Boeing 787 в Мюнхене
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 155053629 · 2026-09-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q141133270
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA26WA311
- Event ID
- 20260817203592
- Case number
- DCA26WA311
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Авария Boeing 787 в Мюнхене" (page 11583800, revision 155053629), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA26WA311 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: 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); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA26WA311
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Boeing 787 accident in Munich" and NTSB case DCA26WA311, 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.