B773, en-route, central Iceland, 2023

B773, en-route, central Iceland, 2023

Summary

On 13 February 2023 a Boeing 777-300 encountered unforecast severe mountain wave turbulence at FL350. The PF was an inexperienced first officer undergoing line training. A line captain was in the cockpit whilst the training captain-in-command was taking crew rest. Although the line captain responded with control inputs, he did not announce this and the trainee continued his own inputs. As a consequence of competing pitch commands, the aircraft lost 8,000 feet of altitude in approximately one minute at up to 17,100 fpm before stabilised flight was regained and a recovery climb initiated. The flight continued to Istanbul where the injured crew and passengers were hospitalised.

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