Boeing 767 N184DN

Summary

On 15 July 2010 at about 02:00 local time, a Boeing 767 registered N184DN, operated by Delta Airlines Inc, was involved in an accident near Pacific Ocean. 202 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

15 July 2010 at 02:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Pacific Ocean

Coordinates

14.0821, 144.7952

Aircraft

Boeing 767

Registration

N184DN

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Delta Airlines Inc

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Hagatna → Narita

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DCA10FA076

1 person was seriously injured.

an inadvertent encounter with clear air turbulence.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the captain of the flight, at the time of the turbulence encounter he was navigating around scattered cloud build-ups. Nothing was showing on radar. The injured flight attendant stated that she was walking down the aisle between the mid galley and the aft galley and fell to the floor at the time of the turbulence encounter. According to the operator, no turbulence was forecast for the area in which the airplane was flying at the time of the turbulence encounter. In addition, satellite imagery revealed that the airplane was in an area not conducive to turbulence when the event occurred. According to the flight data recorder, the vertical acceleration during the turbulence encounter varied between +1.5 g and -0.3 g. The encounter lasted about 5 seconds.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.