Final Report A346 (G-VFIT), en route northern Turkey, 21 Aug 2019
Final Report A346 (G-VFIT), en route northern Turkey, 21 Aug 2019
On 21 August 2019, an Airbus A340-600 encountered sudden-onset moderate to severe clear air turbulence whilst in the cruise at FL 360 over northern Turkey which resulted in a serious passenger injury. The Investigation found that the flight was above and in the vicinity of convective clouds exhibiting considerable vertical development but noted that neither the en-route forecast nor current alerting had given any indication that significant turbulence was likely to be encountered. It was noted the operator's flight crew had not been permitted to upload weather data in flight but since this event, that restriction had been removed.






