Accident ATR 72-212 N636AS, Friday 10 March 2000

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Date:	Friday 10 March 2000
Time:	14:10 LT
Type:	ATR 72-212
Owner/operator:	Atlantic Southeast Airlines - ASA
Registration:	N636AS
MSN:	375
Year of manufacture:	1993
Total airframe hrs:	15862 hours
Engine model:	P&W Canada PW127
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 27
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	None
Category:	Accident
Location:	Athens, GA - United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Unknown
Departure airport:	Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL)
Destination airport:	Greenville, SC (KGSP)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
According to the pilot, the flight was at cruise at 15,000 feet agl, with the seat belt sign illuminated, and no weather echo returns indicated on the weather radar, when he passed through the edge of a cloud. The aircraft received a hard jolt followed by moderate turbulence that caused an unseated cabin crewmember to lose her footing and fall against a seat armrest. She sustained a fracture of the great right toe and the left ankle.

Probable Cause: The flight attendant's failure to seat and belt herself during an inflight encounter with turbulence in clouds resulting in her losing foothold and falling against a passenger seat, sustaining a fractured ankle.

Accident investigation: