Created Wednesday, Jun 26th 2024 15:43Z, last updated Wednesday, Jun 26th 2024 15:43Z
A British Airways Airbus A319-100, registration G-DBCA performing flight
BA-2596 from London Gatwick,EN (UK) to Verona (Italy), was descending towards Verona when the aircraft encountered severe turbulence causing serious injuries to a flight attendant and injuries to two other occupants, the level of injuries is being determined. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on Verona's runway 04.
Italy's ANSV reported the occurrence was rated an accident, an investigation has been opened.
On Jan 11th 2018 the ANSV reported the aircraft encountered severe turbulence while descending through FL280. The flight crew was informed about injured cabin crew and requested medical assistance to be available on landing.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Verona for 50 hours before returning to service.
On Jun 26th 2024 Italia's ANSV released their final report in Italian only (editorial note: to serve the purpose of global prevention of the repeat of causes leading to an occurrence an additional timely release of all occurrence reports in the only world spanning aviation language English would be necessary, an Italian only release does not achieve this purpose as set by ICAO annex 13 and just forces many aviators to waste much more time and effort each in trying to understand the circumstances leading to the occurrence. Aviators operating internationally are required to read/speak English besides their local language, investigators need to be able to read/write/speak English to communicate with their counterparts all around the globe.)
The report concludes the probable cause of the accident was:
The accident was caused by a sudden encounter of severe turbulence during the descent while cabin crew were not yet secured in their seats.
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