China Eastern Airlines Flight 736 accident
A330-243 · Accident
From Sydney Airport, Australia to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, People's Republic of China
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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
- 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
A330-243
- 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
- B-6099
- Operator
- China Eastern Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Sydney Airport, AustraliaTo Shanghai Pudong International Airport, People's Republic of China
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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 China Eastern Airlines Flight 736 accident refers to the incident on 11 June 2017 in which China Eastern Airlines flight 736 from Sydney Airport, Australia, to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, China, suffered an uncontained failure of its left engine shortly after takeoff, with debris piercing the engine's front cowling and causing serious damage. The aircraft immediately made an emergency return to Sydney Airport, where the airport deployed several fire engines to stand by on the apron; fortunately there were no casualties.
The engine cowling of the aircraft involved had a large hole blown in it, through which the engine's fan blades could be seen from outside. It is understood that the accident was first discovered by airport security personnel, who promptly reported it to the crew; local residents said afterwards that they heard the aircraft have the problem at low altitude, with considerable noise, and even said they heard an explosion. China Eastern confirmed the incident, saying the airliner's left engine air intake had been damaged and that it had returned promptly and landed safely.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
On 20 November 2019, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released the final report on the accident; the bureau determined that the cause of the accident was that during takeoff one of three acoustic panels and the inner outer skin of the left engine's air intake cowling detached and were ingested into the engine, damaging the engine and causing the aircraft to return to its departure airport. The bureau also stated that neither it nor Rolls-Royce Holdings had been able to establish a conclusive reason for the detachment of the acoustic panel.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “中国东方航空736号班机事故” (revision 89634015, 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
Chinese Wikipedia article: 中国东方航空736号班机事故
- Article
- 中国东方航空736号班机事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 89634015 · 2025-10-23 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q30949169
- 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
- zh Wikipedia article "中国东方航空736号班机事故" (page 5709855, revision 89634015), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.