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EMBRAER EMB170Republic Airlines Inc.,

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0 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

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  • takeoffAircraft took off and climbed to approximately 23,000 ft where the event occurred
  • about 610 seconds after takeoffAutopilot disengaged; about five seconds later the aircraft experienced rapidly changing vertical and lateral accelerations lasting approximately 25 seconds; largest vertical accelerations +1.79 g and -0.43 g, largest lateral +0.20 g and -0.18 g
  • 45 seconds after disengagementAutopilot re-engaged as the accelerations returned to normal
  • 40 minutes after the eventAircraft landed
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Factual Report of Group Chairman · 4 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
  • CEN09LA1062008-12-27no fatalitiesmatch 105
    EMBRAER ERJ 170-10 · REPUBLIC AIRLINE INC
    Kansas City, MO
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA16CA0412016-01-03no fatalitiesmatch 104
    EMBRAER ERJ 170 100 SE · SHUTTLE AMERICA CORP
    Raleigh, NC
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • CEN11LA2502011-03-26no fatalitiesmatch 103
    EMBRAER EMB-145LR · AMERICAN EAGLE AIRLINES INC
    Kansas City, MO
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA16CA0212015-11-07no fatalitiesmatch 101
    BOEING 787 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
    Beaumont, TX
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA16CA2022016-06-12no fatalitiesmatch 100
    AIRBUS A321 231 · American Airlines
    Jamaica, NY
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • ERA11CA3672011-06-22no fatalitiesmatch 100
    MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD88 · Dynamic Airways, LLC
    Miami, FL
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • WPR11LA0712010-12-03no fatalitiesmatch 100
    BOEING 767 · International Lease Finance Corp
    Pago Pago, AQ
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • ERA11CA3272011-06-06no fatalitiesmatch 99
    BOMBARDIER INC CL600-2D24 · Mesa Airlines
    Florence, SC
    • ●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
  • 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.
  • DCA16CA0412016-01-03 · EMBRAER ERJ 170 100 SE · SHUTTLE AMERICA CORP
    an encounter with turbulence resulting in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
  • CEN11LA2502011-03-26 · EMBRAER EMB-145LR · AMERICAN EAGLE AIRLINES INC
    An in-flight encounter with convectively induced turbulence associated with developing thunderstorms under the flight path during the airplane's climb to cruise flight.
  • DCA16CA0212015-11-07 · BOEING 787 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
    An inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence resulting in serious injury to a flight attendant.
  • DCA16CA2022016-06-12 · AIRBUS A321 231 · American Airlines
    an encounter with convective turbulence that resulted in a flight attendant injury.

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).