V Air Flight 252 incident
Airbus A321-200 · Return to origin due to a faulty power bank catching fire
From Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Tokyo International Airport, Japan
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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 169
- 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
Airbus A321-200
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A321
- 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-22610
- Operator
- V Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Taiwan Taoyuan International AirportTo Tokyo International Airport, Japan
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 V Air Flight 252 incident occurred late at night on 6 May 2016 on flight ZV252 from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Japan; less than 30 minutes after taking off on time at 22:26 that day, a passenger's power bank was reported to be emitting smoke and catching fire due to overheating, but it was promptly extinguished by flight attendants who rushed over using the on-board fire extinguisher. The captain decided to return to Taoyuan Airport for an inspection of the aircraft, and the aircraft returned safely to Taoyuan Airport at 23:21 the same day. None of the 169 people on board were killed or injured.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “威航252號班機事故” (revision 90518985, 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: 威航252號班機事故
- Article
- 威航252號班機事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 90518985 · 2025-12-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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 "威航252號班機事故" (page 7568287, revision 90518985), 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
- 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.