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BOEING 737-300Southwest Airlines Co.
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0 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 reportNo timed facts: this docket has no extracted recorder sequence and no transcript.
Recorder events without a clock time
- TakeoffAircraft took off and climbed to an altitude of approximately 25,000 feet.
- About 15 minutes after takeoffThe aircraft began to descend.
- Approximately 15 minutes after beginning descent, at about 11,000 feetThe aircraft experienced a negative vertical acceleration and lateral and longitudinal accelerations.
- Approximately 10 minutes after the eventThe aircraft landed.
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Factual Report of Group Chairman · 4 events extracted by claude-sonnet-5
How the Board coded the sequence
- Enroute-descent: Turbulence encounter→
- Enroute-descent: Cabin safety event
Precedents
8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded- BOEING 737 824 · UNITED AIR LINES INCValdosta, GA
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Cabin safety eventTurbulence encounter - BOEING 767-224 · CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INCBavaro, DO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737-8H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COBarlow Bend, AL
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COHacienda Heights, CA
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737-924ER · UNITED AIRLINES INCFort Myers, FL
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737-8 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COProvidence, RI
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CODenver, CO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 777-222ER · UNITED AIRLINES INCKelsey, NY
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
- ●Organizational issues › Support/oversight/monitoring › (general)
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
- Aircraft structures › Fuselage
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
- DCA15CA0352014-11-24 · BOEING 737 824 · UNITED AIR LINES INC
an inadvertent encounter with clear air turbulence while the flight attendants were returning to their seats.
- 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.
- DCA25LA2412025-06-18 · BOEING 737-8H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
The airplane’s encounter with unanticipated turbulence during descent, resulting in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
- DCA25LA1262025-02-14 · BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
The airplane’s encounter with moderate turbulence during descent, which resulted in serious injury to a flight attendant.
- DCA25LA2382025-06-16 · BOEING 737-924ER · UNITED AIRLINES INC
The airplane’s inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence during descent, which resulted in serious injuries to two flight attendants.
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).