Incident Overview
Date: Friday 30 June 2006
Aircraft Type: Cessna 560 Citation V
Owner/operator: Yomiuri Shinbun
Registration Number: JA8576
Location: near Tokyo –
ÿ Japan
Phase of Flight: Approach
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Component Affected: Aircraft structure (specifically, the fuselage and wings)Aircraft structure (specifically, the fuselage and wings)
Investigating Agency: JTSBJTSB
Category: Accident
Aviation incident involving JA8576 approached Tokyo Int. Airport by IFR. Turbulence was experienced at 2,000 feet, resulting in a seriously injured 80-year-old passenger fracturing her 11th and 12th thoracic vertebras. A probable cause is that a corporate passenger sustained a bone fracture due to the aircraft being violently jolted vertically by wake turbulence left behind by a preceding aircraft or the second nearest preceding aircraft.Aviation incident involving JA8576 approached Tokyo Int. Airport by IFR. Turbulence was experienced at 2,000 feet, resulting in a seriously injured 80-year-old passenger fracturing her 11th and 12th thoracic vertebras. A probable cause is that a corporate passenger sustained a bone fracture due to the aircraft being violently jolted vertically by wake turbulence left behind by a preceding aircraft or the second nearest preceding aircraft.
Description
When JA8576 approached Tokyo Int. a/p by IFR, it encountered turbulence at 2 000 ft, a 80 year old pax was seriously injured fracturing her 11th and 12th thoracic vertebras. PROBABLE CAUSE It is estimated that the cause of this accident was that one of the corporate passengers sustained a bone fracture as the aircraft was jolted vertically by the wake turbulence which had been left behind the preceding aircraft (or the second nearest preceding aircraft, or both). It is estimated that the previous fracture of the bone which the corporate passenger had sustained contributed to the fracture of the same bone.
Primary Cause
Wake turbulence caused by preceding aircraft caused a bone fracture in a corporate passenger.Wake turbulence caused by preceding aircraft caused a bone fracture in a corporate passenger.Share on:
