diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
index 01c7db03..8c4308f2 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import static com.jayway.jsonpath.Option.ALWAYS_RETURN_LIST;
 import static com.jayway.jsonpath.Option.AS_PATH_LIST;
@@ -749,7 +750,13 @@ private <T> T handleMissingPathInContext(final Configuration configuration) {
         boolean optAsPathList = configuration.containsOption(AS_PATH_LIST);
         boolean optAlwaysReturnList = configuration.containsOption(Option.ALWAYS_RETURN_LIST);
         if (optAsPathList) {
-            return (T) configuration.jsonProvider().createArray();
+            // AS_PATH_LIST results are java.util.List<String> path lists (see
+            // resultByConfiguration / EvaluationContextImpl.getPathList), consumed by the
+            // write operations of JsonContext which cast them to List. Returning
+            // jsonProvider.createArray() here broke that contract with document-model
+            // providers whose arrays are not java.util.List (e.g. Jackson's ArrayNode),
+            // throwing ClassCastException on non-matching paths with SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS.
+            return (T) new ArrayList<String>();
         } else {
             if (optAlwaysReturnList) {
                 return (T) configuration.jsonProvider().createArray();
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Jackson3JsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Jackson3JsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java
index 06b595a5..27c9a28d 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Jackson3JsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Jackson3JsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java
@@ -281,4 +281,21 @@ public static final class Data {
       }
     }
 
+
+    // Write operations on a non-matching path used to throw ClassCastException with
+    // SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS: handleMissingPathInContext returned jsonProvider.createArray()
+    // (an ArrayNode with this provider) where JsonContext casts the AS_PATH_LIST result
+    // to java.util.List. Root cause of zalando/logbook#1369.
+    @Test
+    public void set_on_non_matching_path_with_suppressed_exceptions_does_not_throw() {
+        Configuration conf = JACKSON3_JSON_NODE_CONFIGURATION.addOptions(Option.SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS);
+        DocumentContext context = using(conf).parse(JSON_DOCUMENT);
+
+        context.set("$..does-not-exist.value", "XXX");
+        context.delete("$..does-not-exist");
+        context.renameKey("$..does-not-exist", "old", "new");
+
+        assertThat(context.read("$.string-property", String.class)).isEqualTo("string-value");
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JacksonJsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JacksonJsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java
index 1684248b..056a464e 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JacksonJsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JacksonJsonNodeJsonProviderTest.java
@@ -279,4 +279,21 @@ public static final class Data {
       }
     }
 
+
+    // Write operations on a non-matching path used to throw ClassCastException with
+    // SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS: handleMissingPathInContext returned jsonProvider.createArray()
+    // (an ArrayNode with this provider) where JsonContext casts the AS_PATH_LIST result
+    // to java.util.List. Root cause of zalando/logbook#1369.
+    @Test
+    public void set_on_non_matching_path_with_suppressed_exceptions_does_not_throw() {
+        Configuration conf = JACKSON_JSON_NODE_CONFIGURATION.addOptions(Option.SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS);
+        DocumentContext context = using(conf).parse(JSON_DOCUMENT);
+
+        context.set("$..does-not-exist.value", "XXX");
+        context.delete("$..does-not-exist");
+        context.renameKey("$..does-not-exist", "old", "new");
+
+        assertThat(context.read("$.string-property", String.class)).isEqualTo("string-value");
+    }
+
 }