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EMBRAER EMB-145LRAMERICAN EAGLE AIRLINES INC

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One timeline

2 timed factsthe recorder events from the FDR report, with the transcript's warnings, callouts, the words nearest each event and the final seconds — on one clock, as printed in each report
  1. about 07:05 CDTFDRtakeoffp.3
    Departed Oklahoma City
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  2. about 07:29:35 CDTFDRclimbp.3
    Upset/turbulence event in the climb through 29,900 ft pressure altitude at about N37:54:44 W93:35:23; vertical acceleration ranged from 1.54 g to 0.60 g within one second
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Recorder events without a clock time
  • after the eventDiverted to MCI where the flight attendant received medical attention
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Factual Report of Group Chairman · 3 events extracted by claude-fable-5-1 (in-session)
How the Board coded the sequence
  1. Enroute-climb to cruise: Turbulence encounter

Precedents

8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded
  • DCA09FA0682009-07-27no fatalitiesmatch 103
    EMBRAER EMB170 · Republic Airlines Inc.,
    Norfolk, VA
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • CEN09LA1062008-12-27no fatalitiesmatch 102
    EMBRAER ERJ 170-10 · REPUBLIC AIRLINE INC
    Kansas City, MO
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • WPR11LA0712010-12-03no fatalitiesmatch 99
    BOEING 767 · International Lease Finance Corp
    Pago Pago, AQ
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • WPR12LA1442012-03-20no fatalitiesmatch 99
    BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
    Laverne, OK
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA24LA1302024-03-15no fatalitiesmatch 98
    BOEING 737-800 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
    Paris, TN
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • ERA11CA3272011-06-06no fatalitiesmatch 98
    BOMBARDIER INC CL600-2D24 · Mesa Airlines
    Florence, SC
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA16CA0212015-11-07no fatalitiesmatch 97
    BOEING 787 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
    Beaumont, TX
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA22LA0012020-07-05no fatalitiesmatch 97
    BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
    Orlando, FL
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter

What the record says

a pattern, not a findingacross the 8 closest cases · 8 carry coded findings · 8 have a probable cause
Findings the Board cited in those cases
Occurrences it coded
  • 8 of 8Turbulence encounter
Set against the Board’s own findings for this case
Cited here, and common in the precedents
  • Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Cited here, not seen in the precedents
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Common in the precedents, not cited here
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A teaching device, not a verdict: what the record would have looked at, next to what the Board found.

In the Board’s words — the closest cases
  • DCA09FA0682009-07-27 · EMBRAER EMB170 · Republic Airlines Inc.,
    an inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence that resulted in serious injuries to a flight attendant.
  • CEN09LA1062008-12-27 · EMBRAER ERJ 170-10 · REPUBLIC AIRLINE INC
    An in-flight encounter with turbulence, which resulted in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
  • WPR11LA0712010-12-03 · BOEING 767 · International Lease Finance Corp
    The airplane’s encounter with convectively-induced turbulence, which resulted in serious injury to one flight attendant.
  • WPR12LA1442012-03-20 · BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
    The airplane’s encounter with severe turbulence during cruise flight, which resulted in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
  • DCA24LA1302024-03-15 · BOEING 737-800 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
    An encounter with convective turbulence.

This is the pattern in the NTSB’s own record across similar accidents — which findings it cited, what it coded, what it recommended. It is drawn from the record, not written about this case, and it never assigns blame: investigations exist to prevent the next accident (ICAO Annex 13).