- Date
- August 3, 1992, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Springfield, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor, 65 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N357SWBoeing 737-300
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18549
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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Probable cause
The encounter with severe turbulence while deviating around convective activity.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The flight was in a normal descent and deviating around convective activity when the captain turned on the fasten seat belt sign and instructed the flight attendants to be seated. One of the flight attendants on the aft fold down jump seat was in the process of buckling up when severe turbulence was encountered. The flight attendant was thrown into the ceiling and the right rear exit door and sustained serious injuries. Moderate to severe turbulence was forecast and had been reported at higher altitudes. The captain stated that at the time the airplane was clear of all the activity depicted on his radar.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N357SW
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 26594
- Airframe hours
- 628
- Engine
- GE CFM-56-3, 20,000 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Southwest Airlines, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Southwest Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · July 25, 1992 · 74 hours before
- Departed
- STL · St. Louis, MO
- Destination
- TUL · Tulsa, OK
- Flight plan
- IFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13,356 total · 4,456 in this make and model · 227 in the last 90 days · 76 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day