Boeing 737-824 — registry & accident history
Compiled from FAA & NTSB records · as of Jul 21, 2026
There are 135 Boeing 737-824 airframes on record (built 1998–2016), 135 currently registered. 9 have one or more NTSB accident records (9 records total). Data as of Jul 21, 2026.
Recent Boeing 737-824 accidents
An encounter with clear air turbulence, which resulted in a serious injury as a flight attendant was lowering her jumpseat.
Maintenance personnel’s excessive grinding of the left main landing gear’s aft trunnion pin during its initial overhaul, which caused heat damage to the base metal and led to the fatigue crack that caused the pin to fail during the accident flight. Contributing to the accident was the failure of maintenance personnel to detect the excessive grinding during the initial overhaul and the fatigue crack during the subsequent overhaul.
The local controller’s failure to comply with Federal Aviation Administration separation requirements for aircraft operating on intersecting runways.
