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Event CHI88IA081

1988-03-24 CIMARRON, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N308AA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

APOLLO AIRCRAFT INC MONSOON

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

ROTAX 582DCDI (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100412

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A33D0B

Registrant of record

GREENWOOD RICHARD N

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

WHILE IN NORMAL CRUISE FLIGHT AT FL 370, THE FLT CREW WAS ADVISED BY ARTCC PERSONNEL THAT OTHER AIRCRAFT WERE EXPERIENCING OCCASIONAL SEVERE TURBULENCE AT FL 370 ALONG THEIR ROUTE OF FLIGHT. A DESCENT WAS MADE TO FL 330 TO AVOID TURBULENCE. LATER, AS THE AIRCRAFT WAS CRUISING AT FL 330 WITH THE SEAT BELT SIGN OFF, IT ENCOUNTERED 'SEVERE CHOP WITH SEVERE TURBULENCE, IN CLEAR AIR.' ONE FLIGHT ATTENDANT AND TWO PASSENGERS WERE INJURED DURING THE TURBULENCE ENCOUNTER. THE AIRCRAFT CONTINUED TO ITS DESTINATION WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_CHI88IA081.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (turbulence). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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