# NTSB Accident ERA09LA488
> **BOEING 717-200** · 2009-08-27 · Inverness, FL, USA · SERS
## Event
- **NTSB number:** ERA09LA488
- **Event ID:** 20090828X61756
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2009-08-27
- **Location:** Inverness, FL, USA
- **Coordinates:** 29, -82.900001
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** SERS
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 1
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 85
- **Total aboard:** 86
## Aircraft
- **Make:** BOEING
- **Model:** 717-200
- **Registration:** N994AT
- **FAR Part:** 121
- **Engines:** 2
- **Damage:** —
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** IMC
## Probable cause

The flight crew's encounter with convective turbulence. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the operator's dispatch department to provide the flightcrew with current adverse weather information along the planned route of flight. Also contributing was the failure of the flightcrew to provide relevant forecast information to the cabin crew, and their failure to detect and avoid the existing convective conditions.

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*Source: [NTSB CAROL](https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search?source=ntsb&type=event&ntsb_number=ERA09LA488) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*