diff --git a/externals/kyuubi-spark-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/spark/operation/SparkOperation.scala b/externals/kyuubi-spark-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/spark/operation/SparkOperation.scala
index 22612731805..3c6f80e0a70 100644
--- a/externals/kyuubi-spark-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/spark/operation/SparkOperation.scala
+++ b/externals/kyuubi-spark-sql-engine/src/main/scala/org/apache/kyuubi/engine/spark/operation/SparkOperation.scala
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ abstract class SparkOperation(spark: SparkSession, opType: OperationType, sessio
   }
 
   protected def onError(cancel: Boolean = false): PartialFunction[Throwable, Unit] = {
-    case e: Exception =>
+    // We should use Throwable instead of Exception since `java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError`
+    // could be thrown.
+    case e: Throwable =>
       if (cancel) spark.sparkContext.cancelJobGroup(statementId)
       state.synchronized {
         val errMsg = KyuubiSQLException.stringifyException(e)