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Embraer ERJ190American Airlines Inc

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  • 1109 ESTEncountered turbulence and the #1 flight attendant (FA) received a serious injury
FLIGHT DATA RECORDER - SPECIALISTA��S FACTUAL REPORT · 1 events extracted by claude-sonnet-5
How the Board coded the sequence
  1. Enroute: Turbulence encounter

Precedents

8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded
  • DCA20CA0402019-12-15no fatalitiesmatch 100
    Embraer EMB145 · Piedmont Airlines
    Philadelphia, PA
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA25LA2692025-07-21no fatalitiesmatch 99
    EMBRAER-EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE ERJ 170-200 LR · DELTA AIR LINES INC
    Jacksonville, GA
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA23LA4112023-08-14no fatalitiesmatch 99
    EMBRAER ERJ170 · Envoy Air
    Eleroy, IL
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA26LA1672026-03-29no fatalitiesmatch 98
    BOEING 787-9 · UNITED AIRLINES INC
    Pacific Ocean, PO
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA16CA0232015-11-23no fatalitiesmatch 98
    AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A319 112 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
    Philadelphia, PA
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA19CA0752019-02-05no fatalitiesmatch 98
    Boeing 737 · American Airlines
    Bluefields, NI
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA25LA0472024-11-24no fatalitiesmatch 98
    BOEING 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
    Brasilia, OF
    • ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
    Turbulence encounter
  • DCA16CA2092016-08-03no fatalitiesmatch 97
    AIRBUS A319 115 · American Airlines
    Grand Cayman Island (GCM), KY
    • ●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
  • DCA20CA0402019-12-15 · Embraer EMB145 · Piedmont Airlines
    An inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence.
  • DCA25LA2692025-07-21 · EMBRAER-EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE ERJ 170-200 LR · DELTA AIR LINES INC
    The airplane’s encounter with unanticipated moderate turbulence.
  • DCA23LA4112023-08-14 · EMBRAER ERJ170 · Envoy Air
    An encounter with clear air turbulence.
  • DCA26LA1672026-03-29 · BOEING 787-9 · UNITED AIRLINES INC
    An unanticipated encounter with clear air turbulence while in cruise flight.
  • DCA16CA0232015-11-23 · AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A319 112 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
    an inadvertent encounter with clear air 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).