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BOEING 737-7H4SOUTHWEST 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.
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- 1924:30 GMTStart of data shown in Figure 1, aircraft initially climbed to flight level 340 and then continued to flight level 360
- 2030 GMTCrew reported upset time; assumed to occur at flight level 360 in level, cruise flight, about 1 hour after take-off
- 2354:30 GMTEnd of data shown in Figure 1
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Specialist'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- BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COLaverne, OK
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 737-924ER · UNITED AIR LINES INCPlevna, KS
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD88 · Dynamic Airways, LLCMiami, FL
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 757-2B7 · U.S. Airways, Inc.Cheltenham, MD
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767-322 · UNITED AIRLINES INCGulf of America , GM
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767-322 · UNITED AIRLINES INCKingston, CB
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 787-9 · UNITED AIRLINES INCPacific Ocean, PO
- ●Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena › Turbulence
Turbulence encounter - BOEING 767-3P6 · DELTA AIR LINES INCUnknown, AR
- ●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
- WPR12LA1442012-03-20 · BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
The airplane’s encounter with severe turbulence during cruise flight, which resulted in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
- DCA16CA0102015-10-24 · BOEING 737-924ER · UNITED AIR LINES INC
An inadvertent encounter with clear air turbulence resulting in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
- ERA11CA3672011-06-22 · MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD88 · Dynamic Airways, LLC
The in-flight encounter with convective turbulence, resulting in an injury to a cabin attendant.
- ERA11CA2472011-04-17 · BOEING 757-2B7 · U.S. Airways, Inc.
The in-flight encounter with turbulence, resulting in an injury to a cabin attendant.
- DCA25LA0912024-12-29 · BOEING 767-322 · UNITED AIRLINES INC
An encounter with an area of clear air turbulence during cruise, which resulted in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
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).