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MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC10Omni Air International
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timed facts
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precedents
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One timeline
3 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- 13:20:20-13:34:20 GMTFDRcruisep.314-minute window plotted around the encountersee the traces at this moment ↗
- 13:27:22 GMTFDRcruisep.3About 5 hours 21 minutes after takeoff at 36,000 ft pressure altitude, vertical acceleration changed from 0.9 g to 1.8 g to -0.5 g to 1.7 g and back to 0.9 g within 3 secondssee the traces at this moment ↗
- about 14:53 GMTFDRlandingp.3Aircraft landed at Guam approximately 1 hour 26 minutes after the encounter
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Specialist's Factual Report · 3 events extracted by claude-fable-5-1 (in-session)
How the Board coded the sequence
- Enroute-cruise: Turbulence encounter
Precedents
8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded- BOEING 777-200 · United Airlines Inc.,New Market, VA
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767-224 · CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INCBavaro, DO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 777 · United Airlines, Inc.Southern Tip of Greenland, DK
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767 · International Lease Finance CorpPago Pago, AQ
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 787 · UNITED AIRLINES INCClaveria, OF
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767-322 · UNITED AIRLINES INCNewark, NJ
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - Boeing 767 · Delta Air LinesSUNNS intersection, Osaka, JP
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737 · American AirlinesRushville, IN
- ●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 causeFindings the Board cited in those cases
- 8 of 8Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulencecited here too
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
- DCA10FA0122009-11-19 · BOEING 777-200 · United Airlines Inc.,
The flight crew’s inadvertent encounter with a small area of cumulous clouds at night that resulted in moderate to severe convectively induced turbulence.
- DCA09IA0712009-08-03 · BOEING 767-224 · CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INC
The flight crew's inadvertent flight through the top of a convective updraft that resulted in an encounter with convective induced turbulence. Contributing to the severity of the incident was the unrestrained status of several passengers, contrary to the lighted seat belt sign.
- DCA10FA0642010-05-25 · BOEING 777 · United Airlines, Inc.
An inadvertent encounter with unforecast turbulence in cruise flight.
- 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.
- DCA25LA1732025-03-27 · BOEING 787 · UNITED AIRLINES INC
An encounter with convective turbulence during cruise that was not detected in advance by cockpit weather radar or weather information services.
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).