NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
CE750 First Officer reported encountering wake turbulence departing FLL in trail of an A320 that resulted in a 45 degree roll.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
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During climb on the FLL HROCK1 near YOLOO at approximately 7000 ft. in smooth air, we suddenly experienced wake turbulence that rolled the aircraft 45 degrees to the left. The induced roll was enough to disconnect the Autopilot and cause the flight guidance computer to reset. As the Pilot Flying, I recovered the airplane and hand flew until the FGC (Flight Guidance Computer) reset about 30 seconds later. The Pilot Monitoring reported the wake turbulence to ATC who replied that we were 3 NM in trail of an Airbus A320 or 321. The PM (Pilot Monitoring) checked on the passengers who said they were okay. As it was below 10,000 ft., the passenger safety signs had not been turned off. Once we were at a safe altitude and low workload the PM checked on the passengers again to verify there were no injuries. There were no injuries.
Analyst callback
ASRS analysts occasionally follow up with reporters by phone. These are the paraphrased additional notes from those conversations.
Reporter stated the roll was quite abrupt.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Environment - Non Weather Related · Procedure
- Primary Problem
- Ambiguous
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