diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34c63cdb4a2..88793ee3b11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 - Dev: Refactor `StreamerMode`. (#5216, #5236)
 - Dev: Cleaned up unused code in `MessageElement` and `MessageLayoutElement`. (#5225)
 - Dev: Adapted `magic_enum` to Qt's Utf-16 strings. (#5258)
-- Dev: `NetworkManager`'s statics are now created in its `init` method. (#5254)
+- Dev: `NetworkManager`'s statics are now created in its `init` method. (#5254, #5297)
 - Dev: `clang-tidy` CI now uses Qt 6. (#5273)
 - Dev: Enabled `InsertNewlineAtEOF` in `clang-format`. (#5278)
 
diff --git a/src/common/network/NetworkManager.cpp b/src/common/network/NetworkManager.cpp
index 956c2e79f31..eb1b7ec5229 100644
--- a/src/common/network/NetworkManager.cpp
+++ b/src/common/network/NetworkManager.cpp
@@ -24,15 +24,19 @@ void NetworkManager::deinit()
     assert(NetworkManager::workerThread);
     assert(NetworkManager::accessManager);
 
+    // delete the access manager first:
+    // - put the event on the worker thread
+    // - wait for it to process
+    NetworkManager::accessManager->deleteLater();
+    NetworkManager::accessManager = nullptr;
+
     if (NetworkManager::workerThread)
     {
         NetworkManager::workerThread->quit();
         NetworkManager::workerThread->wait();
     }
 
-    delete NetworkManager::accessManager;
-    NetworkManager::accessManager = nullptr;
-    delete NetworkManager::workerThread;
+    NetworkManager::workerThread->deleteLater();
     NetworkManager::workerThread = nullptr;
 }