Boeing 737-8H4 — registry & accident history

Recent Boeing 737-8H4 accidents

1. N8685BJun 18, 2025Serious

   The airplane’s encounter with unanticipated turbulence during descent, resulting in a serious injury to a flight attendant.

2. N8315CMar 20, 2025No injuries

   The captain’s failure to recognize that the airplane’s location did not agree with the assigned departure runway as required per the Southwest Airlines Airplane Operating Manual, and the captain’s plan continuation error when he missed several cues that would have informed him that he was not on the assigned departure runway when he initiated takeoff.

3. N8642EOct 9, 2021Serious

   The airplane’s inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence.

4. N8674BJun 11, 2021No injuries

   The blocked go-around radio instruction from the air traffic control tower to the arrival aircraft which resulted in the arrival aircraft continuing the landing approach. This led to a loss of separation between the landing aircraft and the aircraft awaiting departure on the runway. Contributing to the loss of separation was the controller’s distraction communicating with a helicopter transitioning the airspace.

5. N8686AMay 21, 2021No injuries

   the failure of the flight crew of N8686A to provide sufficient clearance while taxiing past N289CT, which was stopped.

6. N8608NJun 17, 2019No injuries

   a provisioning truck that impacted the airplane resulting in substantial damage.

7. N8697CMay 25, 2019Serious

   an encounter with convectively induced turbulence while penetrating cumulus clouds during descent.

8. N8693AJun 12, 2018Serious

   a passenger bumping into a flight attendant who was holding a hot liquid.

Boeing 737-8H4 aircraft

• N500WR ’14 •
• N8314L ’12 •
• N8315C ’12 •
• N8324A ’12 •
• N8327A ’12 •
• N8608N ’13 •
• N8655D ’14 •
• N8674B ’15 •
• N8685B ’16 •
• N8686A ’16 •
• N8693A ’16 •
• N8697C ’16 •