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NTSB Investigating United Boeing 737 Accident Near Moab, Utah

The accident record lists one person on board, one minor injury and substantial damage to the aircraft; the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 9:16 a.m. ET
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an accident involving a operated by near Moab, Utah, according to the accident record. The record gives the date as October 16, 2025, at about local time. The investigation remains open. The accident record lists one person on board and one minor injury, and states that the aircraft sustained substantial damage. It classifies the flight as a Part 121 scheduled air carrier operation. The aircraft is identified in the accident record as registration . Aircraft registry records list as a MAX 8 with United Airlines as operator of record, registered in the United States. The cause has not been determined. The NTSB is the investigating body named in the record. Weather observations recorded at Canyonlands Regional Airport (KCNY), 16.8 miles from the accident location and 10 minutes from the reported time, showed wind from 310 degrees at 7 knots, visibility 10 statute miles, clear skies and 55°F. That is an instrument reading at a nearby field and is not a statement by anyone about what happened. Geographic reference data locates Moab in Grand County, Utah; the elevation of the settlement itself is 4,052 feet, which is not the elevation of the accident site. Accident records list five other cases involving the same operator in 2025: N21129, an Embraer EMB-145XR at Roanoke, Virginia, on September 25; N39297, a Boeing 737-824 at Osaka, Japan, on September 12; N796UA, a Boeing 777-222 at Ezeiza on September 9; N822UA, an Airbus A319-131 at Santa Barbara, California, on July 19; and N66831, a Boeing 737-924ER at Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 2. Those are separate records and say nothing about the cause of 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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.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
N17327
Type
Boeing 737 MAX 8
Operator of record
United Airlines
Terrain elevation
4,052 ft
Nearest aerodrome
7.7 miles NW of Sky Ranch Airport (UT53)

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:16current

    Corrected the garbled description of nearby aerodrome bearings, clarified that the 4,052 ft elevation is the settlement's and not the site's, and removed the 'developing' framing in favour of the open-investigation status.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 19:56

    First published.

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