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BOEING 787UNITED AIRLINES INC

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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

DCA23LA2522023-04-22no fatalitiesmatch 103
BOEING 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
Atlantic Ocean, AO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA16CA2202016-08-31no fatalitiesmatch 102
BOEING 767 322 · United Airlines
International Waters, A1
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA23LA3822023-07-28no fatalitiesmatch 102
BOEING 737-924ER · UNITED AIRLINES INC
Myrtle Beach , AO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA15LA0672015-02-15no fatalitiesmatch 102
BOEING 767 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
HONOLULU, PO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA19CA1892019-07-22no fatalitiesmatch 102
Boeing 767 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
San Juan, PR
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA24FA1432024-04-03no fatalitiesmatch 101
BOEING 737-7CT · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
Gulf of America, GM
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA24LA2542024-08-04no fatalitiesmatch 101
BOEING 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
Linneus, MO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter
DCA16CA2142016-08-17no fatalitiesmatch 101
BOEING 737 924 · United Airlines
Waco, 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 cause

Findings the Board cited in those cases

8 of 8Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulencecited here too
DCA23LA252 DCA16CA220 DCA23LA382 DCA15LA067 DCA19CA189 DCA24FA143 DCA24LA254 DCA16CA214

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

Common in the precedents, not cited here

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

DCA23LA2522023-04-22 · BOEING 777-223 · AMERICAN AIRLINES INC
An encounter with inadvertent convective turbulence during cruise flight.
DCA16CA2202016-08-31 · BOEING 767 322 · United Airlines
an inadvertent encounter with severe convective turbulence.
DCA23LA3822023-07-28 · BOEING 737-924ER · UNITED AIRLINES INC
An encounter with convectively induced turbulence (CIT) while in cruise flight.
DCA15LA0672015-02-15 · BOEING 767 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
an encounter with convective turbulence associated with a forecasted area of thunderstorms.
DCA19CA1892019-07-22 · Boeing 767 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
An encounter with convective turbulence during cruise flight.

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).