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AIRBUS A321-231AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
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2
timed facts
8
precedents
12
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2 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- 18:17:33 to 18:17:37 EDTFDRCruisep.5Aircraft encountered an upset at a pressure altitude of approximately 25,032 feet, about 29 minutes after takeoffsee the traces at this moment ↗
- 18:17:33 UTCFDRCruise/Upsetp.5Maximum vertical acceleration deviation of 2.75 g recorded while aircraft was located at about 30.95895767 N, 82.50595093 Wsee the traces at this moment ↗
Recorder events without a clock time
- approximately 42 minutes after upsetAircraft landed
FLIGHT DATA RECORDER - SPECIALISTA��S FACTUAL REPORT · 3 events extracted by claude-sonnet-5
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- AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A330-323 · US AIRWAYS INCSophia, NC
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A321-211 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INCMiami, FL
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS A321 231 · American AirlinesJamaica, NY
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS A320 232 · JetBlue AirwaysWood, SD
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS A320 · Spirit AirlinesNashville, TN
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A320-232 · UNITED AIRLINES INCHouston, TX
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - AIRBUS A320 232 · jetBlue AirwaysBoston, MA
- ●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
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
- DCA12CA1492012-09-18 · AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A330-323 · US AIRWAYS INC
an encounter with moderate turbulence while the flight attendant was securing the cabin for arrival.
- DCA25LA2402025-06-22 · AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A321-211 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
The unexpected encounter with a rapidly developing convective cell during climb resulting in convectively induced turbulence on a dark moon-less evening.
- DCA16CA2022016-06-12 · AIRBUS A321 231 · American Airlines
an encounter with convective turbulence that resulted in a flight attendant injury.
- DCA16IA2152016-08-12 · AIRBUS A320 232 · JetBlue Airways
an inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence while in cruise flight.
- DCA25LA2392025-06-22 · AIRBUS A320 · Spirit Airlines
The airplane’s encounter with moderate convective turbulence during descent.
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).