C/n 48408/457. The aircraft registration was N408SH when photographed at MIA eight days before the crash on takeoff at 8:12 AM, November 28, 2009, at Shanghai, China. There were three fatalities reported at the time of this writing.

The aircraft was re-registered by Avient to Z-BAV on November 20, 2009, and it entered service on November 22nd on a flight to Hong Kong.

This aircraft was delivered new to Korean Air as HL7372 on January 25, 1991. It was returned to the lessor in December 2004 and re-registered as N988PG. VARIG Log operated the aircraft as PR-LGD from March 18, 2005 to April 2008. It was stored at Miami International Airport in April 2008 as N408SH.