Qatar A320 near Doha on Dec 7th 2014, turbulence injures flight attendant
Last Update: December 8, 2014 / 17:03:04 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 7, 2014
Classification
Accident
Airline
Qatar Airways
Flight number
QR-261
Departure
Doha, Qatar
Destination
Warsaw, Poland
Aircraft Registration
A7-AHX
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
The airline confirmed that the aircraft encountered moderate turbulence while climbing out of Doha causing a slight shoulder bruise to a flight attendant and added that the passengers' nerves were tested a second time when the aircraft needed to go around on final approach to Warsaw, but denied a journalist's report travelling as passenger.
The journalist reported the aircraft had just flown through "another aircraft's jet stream. Most of the cabin crew are injured, 2 seriously". The occurrence happened about 10 minutes into the flight causing a wild maneouver with the aircraft doing a sharp turn to the right and falling for about 5-7 seconds to avoid collision with the other aircraft, two flight attendants received serious injuries, one of them being in pain and unable to continue duties.
The airline stated that they are not aware of any second aircraft's involvement in the turbulence encounter and re-iterated that only one flight attendant sustained a minor shoulder bruise.
Radar data do not show any anomaly, like a descent/reduction climb or sharp right hand turn and deviation from flight path, except the go-around at Warsaw.
The aircraft departed for the return flight from Warsaw on schedule.
Metars Doha:
OTBD 070300Z 30005KT 270V330 7000 NSC 19/16 Q1020 NOSIG
OTBD 070200Z 30005KT 270V330 8000 NSC 19/17 Q1019 NOSIG
OTBD 070100Z 31005KT 8000 NSC 19/17 Q1019 NOSIG
OTBD 070000Z 31003KT 9000 NSC 20/17 Q1019 NOSIG
OTBD 062330Z 31006KT 9000 NSC 20/17 Q1019 NOSIG
OTBD 062300Z 31005KT 9000 NSC 20/17 Q1019 NOSIG
OTBD 062200Z 31005KT 270V340 CAVOK 21/16 Q1019 NOSIG
Metars Warsaw:
EPWA 070730Z 16003KT 0300 R11/0500N FG VV002 01/01 Q1021 TEMPO 0600 VV001
EPWA 070700Z 16002KT 0350 R11/0600N FG VV002 01/01 Q1022 TEMPO 0600 VV001
EPWA 070630Z 15002KT 0550 R11/0650N FG VV002 01/01 Q1022 TEMPO 0600 FG VV001
EPWA 070600Z VRB02KT 1300 1100W R11/1300D BR BKN002 01/01 Q1022 TEMPO 0700 FG
EPWA 070530Z 17002KT 2200 BR BKN002 01/01 Q1021 TEMPO 0800 FG
EPWA 070500Z 19001KT 1800 BR BKN002 01/01 Q1021 TEMPO 0800 FG
EPWA 070430Z 18001KT 0700 R11/0800U FG VV002 01/01 Q1021 NOSIG
EPWA 070400Z 00000KT 0600 R11/0700N FG VV002 01/01 Q1021 NOSIG
EPWA 070330Z VRB01KT 0600 R11/0900D FG VV002 01/01 Q1021 NOSIG
EPWA 070300Z VRB02KT 2000 BR OVC002 01/01 Q1021 TEMPO 0800 FG
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 7, 2014
Classification
Accident
Airline
Qatar Airways
Flight number
QR-261
Departure
Doha, Qatar
Destination
Warsaw, Poland
Aircraft Registration
A7-AHX
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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