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NTSB Investigating Accident Involving All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Near Houston

The accident record lists substantial damage to the aircraft, registration JA873A, on February 27, 2026; the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 10:43 a.m. ET
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an accident involving a operated by near Houston, Texas, according to the accident record. The record gives the date as February 27, 2026, at about 1:53 p.m. local time. The event is developing and the details available so far are limited to the official filing. The accident record lists the aircraft as having sustained substantial damage and classifies the flight as a Part 129 foreign air carrier operation. It does not list injury counts, which is usual for a preliminary filing. The cause has not been determined; the NTSB investigation is open. The aircraft is identified in the accident record as . Aircraft registry records list it as a Boeing 787-9, a twin-engine jet landplane, serial number 34530, registered in Japan, with the registered owner given as All Nippon Airways. The owner of record is not necessarily the operator of the flight, the pilot, or otherwise connected to it. Weather observations recorded at William P. Hobby Airport (KHOU), 9.6 miles away per geographic reference data, gave wind from 50 degrees at 6 knots, visibility 10 statute miles, clear skies and 84°F at the time. These are instrument readings and are not a statement about what happened. As a matter of public record, NTSB case records list four other cases involving the same operator: DCA25LA267, a registered JA986A at North Charleston, South Carolina, on July 19, 2025; DCA25LA102, a registered JA892A at Ojai, California, on January 8, 2025; DCA24WA087, a registered JA899A at Tokoname, Japan, on February 1, 2024; and DCA23WA137, a Boeing 767 registered JA603A at Narita, Japan, on January 25, 2023. Those records say nothing about the cause of this accident. Corporate records published by the ANA Group list Koji Shibata as chairman of All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. and president and CEO of ANA Holdings Inc.; FlightGlobal has reported Shinichi Inoue as president and chief executive of All Nippon Airways. The investigation has made no finding connecting either post-holder to this accident.

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Reference data

From aircraft and geographic registries, not from the news sources. Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Registration
JA873A
Type
Boeing 787 9 — twin-engine jet landplane
Registered owner
All Nippon AirwaysThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
69 ft
Nearest aerodrome
9.6 miles NW of William P. Hobby Airport (KHOU/HOU)

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 14:43current

    Removed the settlement elevation figure as not relevant to the accident site, attributed the corporate post-holder listing to ANA Group records, and added source URLs.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 16:51

    First published.

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