Incident · 2014-04-29
What the record says
- Event date
- 2014-04-29
- Event type
- Incident
- Highest injury level
- Minor injury
- Aircraft
- BOEING 757 (NUNK)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- NA Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- NA
Probable cause
The air traffic controller’s failure to provide required advisories about significant radar-observed convective precipitation along both airplanes’ flight routes and the air route traffic control center’s lack of a program to ensure that air traffic controllers provide this required information to pilots, which led to both airplanes encountering severe turbulence. Contributing to the airplanes’ encounters with severe turbulence was the flight crews’ failure to detect the precipitation using on-board radar and request deviations, as necessary, to avoid the hazard.
Source: NTSB case OPS14IA007Flight crew
No flight-crew details recorded in the NTSB accident database for this event.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.