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BOMBARDIER INC CL 600 2C10Skywest Airlines
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1 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- 22:21 GMTFDRCruise at FL360p.2Turbulence encounter occurred as the aircraft was passing through about 35,750 ftsee the traces at this moment ↗
FLIGHT DATA RECORDER SPECIALIST'S FACTUAL REPORT · 1 events extracted by claude-sonnet-5
How the Board coded the sequence
- Enroute-cruise: Collision avoidance alert→
- Enroute-cruise: Abrupt maneuver→
- Enroute-cruise: Turbulence encounter
Precedents
8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded- AIRBUS A320 232 · JetBlue AirwaysWood, SD
- ●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 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INCPacific Ocean, USA
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOMBARDIER INC CL-600-2B19 · PINNACLE AIRLINES INCLouisville, KY
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767-224 · CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INCBavaro, DO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INCAtlantic Ocean, AO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS A319 132 · Spirit Airlines, Inc.South Toledo Bend, TX
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 777-200 · United Airlines Inc.,New Market, VA
- ●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
- DCA16IA2152016-08-12 · AIRBUS A320 232 · JetBlue Airways
an inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence while 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.
- WPR11LA2032011-04-11 · BOEING 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
An inadvertent encounter with convective-induced turbulence upon entering cumulonimbus clouds.
- DCA09CA0692009-08-04 · BOMBARDIER INC CL-600-2B19 · PINNACLE AIRLINES INC
an inadvertent encounter with convective 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.
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).