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BOMBARDIER INC DHC-8-402HORIZON AIR INDUSTRIES INC

What the docket says, assembled. No language model is involved, so nothing on this page can be invented — every line traces to a recorder, a report page or the Board's own record.

2
timed facts
8
precedents
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One timeline

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
  1. 1407 PST (approx 14:00:16 PST per FDR)FDRDescentp.2
    Horizon Airlines flight 2306 encountered a bird strike near Los Angeles, California. A sudden spike in vertical and lateral acceleration can be seen.
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  2. 14:06:38 PST (approximate)FDRLandingp.2
    Based on landing gear weight on wheel parameters, the aircraft landed.
    see the traces at this moment ↗
Recorder events without a clock time
  • 1247 PSTThe flight departed Redding (RDD), California, as a non-stop to Los Angeles (LAX).
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Specialist's Factual Report · 3 events extracted by claude-sonnet-5
How the Board coded the sequence
  1. Enroute-descent: Birdstrike

Precedents

8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded
  • CEN14LA2622014-05-28substantialmatch 95
    EMBRAER EMB 135KL · CHAUTAUQUA AIRLINES INC
    Traverse City, MI
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • DCA14CA0312013-11-25substantialmatch 93
    DE HAVILLAND DHC8 - 102 · Piedmont Airlines
    Philadelphia, PA
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • CEN11LA0722010-11-15substantialmatch 92
    EMBRAER ERJ 170-200 LR · Compass Airlines, LLC
    Minneapolis, MN
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • WPR10LA0442009-11-02substantialmatch 90
    MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD-90-30 · DELTA AIR LINES INC
    Phoenix, AZ
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • WPR10LA3952010-08-10substantialmatch 90
    EMBRAER EMB-145XR · Express Jet Airlines
    Salt Lake City, UT
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • DCA20CA0102019-10-29substantialmatch 90
    De Havilland DHC8 · Horizon Air Indistries Inc.
    Boise, ID
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • DCA24LA0512023-12-19substantialmatch 89
    BOEING 737 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
    St. Louis, MO
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike
  • DCA23LA0672022-11-20substantialmatch 88
    AIRBUS A320 · DELTA AIR LINES INC
    Red Oak, IA
    • ●Environmental issues › Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
    Birdstrike

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 8Birdstrike
Set against the Board’s own findings for this case
Cited here, and common in the precedents
  • Physical environment › Object/animal/substance
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
  • CEN14LA2622014-05-28 · EMBRAER EMB 135KL · CHAUTAUQUA AIRLINES INC
    An in-flight collision with a bird during the descent to land, which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane.
  • DCA14CA0312013-11-25 · DE HAVILLAND DHC8 - 102 · Piedmont Airlines
    an inadvertent encounter with several birds during approach that resulted in substantial damage to the airplane.
  • CEN11LA0722010-11-15 · EMBRAER ERJ 170-200 LR · Compass Airlines, LLC
    The in-flight collision with a flock of birds during climb.
  • WPR10LA0442009-11-02 · MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD-90-30 · DELTA AIR LINES INC
    An in-flight collision with birds.
  • WPR10LA3952010-08-10 · EMBRAER EMB-145XR · Express Jet Airlines
    An in-flight collision with a bird while on the downwind leg of the traffic pattern during a visual approach.

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).