- Date
- December 4, 2016, 05:00 local (05:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lajes Terceira Island, Portugal
- Injuries
- 5 serious, 351 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- A7-BANBoeing 777
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Turbulence encounter
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 94482
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Turbulence encounterAll aircraft: 423 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The government of Portugal has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a BOEING 777 airplane that occurred on December 04, 2016. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Portugal's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of Portugal.
Aircraft
- Registration
- A7-BAN
- Reported as
- Boeing 777 (3DZER)
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Operator
- Qatar Airways
- Registered owner
- Qatar Airways