BOEING 737 7H4SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
St Louis, MO, USA · 2015-11-29·N467WN
What happened
NTSB summary, verbatimOn November 29, 2015, at 5:15pm central standard time, Southwest Airlines flight 145, a Boeing 737-700, N467WN, encountered severe turbulence on descent to St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL), St. Louis, Missouri. The airplane was descending between flight level 210 and flight level 180 with the seatbelt light illuminated. The flight attendants (FA) were completing cabin service, and the two FA's in the aft cabin fell, one experiencing a broken right foot and leg. None of the passengers were injured and the airplane was not damaged. The airplane was on a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Dallas Love Field (DAL).
Photographs
1the aircraft, and what the investigators foundProbable cause
the Board's determinationan inadvertent encounter with clear air turbulence.
Occurrence sequence
1 stepsNTSB coding · CICTT taxonomy- 1 · Enroute-descentTurbulence encounterdefining event
Findings
1 causal · 0 contributing- CAUSEEnvironmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence › Clear air turbulence — Effect on personnel
NTSB analysis
from the final reportOn November 29, 2015, at 5:15pm central standard time, Southwest Airlines flight 145, a Boeing 737-700, N467WN, encountered severe turbulence on descent to St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL), St. Louis, Missouri. The airplane was descending between flight level 210 and flight level 180 with the seatbelt light illuminated. The flight attendants (FA) were completing cabin service, and the two FA's in the aft cabin fell, one experiencing a broken right foot and leg. None of the passengers were injured and the airplane was not damaged. The airplane was on a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Dallas Love Field (DAL).