Dornier 328-100 N423JS

Summary

On 10 April 2001 at about 05:00 local time, a Dornier 328-100 registered N423JS was involved in an accident near Springfield, Virginia, United States. 14 people were on board and one was seriously injured. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

10 April 2001 at 05:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Springfield, Virginia, United States

Coordinates

38.7793, -77.1707

Aircraft

Dornier 328-100

Registration

N423JS

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Charleston → Washington

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

Weather

VMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

NYC01LA096

1 person was seriously injured.

An inadvertent encounter with turbulence during descent.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

As the flight approached its destination, it entered an area of convective activity. The first officer contacted the flight attendant and advised her that she should secure the cabin due to possible turbulence. While descending through 4,000 feet, the airplane encountered "moderate or greater chop." During the encounter, the flight attendant was thrown to the floor while attempting to secure the galley. The captain elected to divert the flight to another airport, where it landed uneventfully. The weather recorded at the destination airport, about the time of the accident, included surface winds at 17, gusting to 22 knots, decreasing thunderstorms, scattered cumulonimbus clouds at 4,200 feet, a broken cloud layer at 9,500 feet, and an overcast layer at 11,000 feet.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.