Accident · 2007-12-25

What the record says

Event date

2007-12-25

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Serious injury

Aircraft

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-83 (N943AS)

Operating rule

Part 121

Operator

ALASKA AIR INC Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

Alaska Airlines, Inc.

Probable cause

The lack of turbulence forecasts available to the flight crew, which resulted in the flight attendants not being seated when the flight encountered severe terrain-induced turbulence. Contributing to the accident were the terrain-induced turbulence, the failure of the company that provided the flight's weather briefing to forecast severe turbulence, and the failure of the dispatcher to provide the National Weather Service severe turbulence forecast to the flight.

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.