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Mesa Airlines
Serial Number 444
MFR Year 1996
Engine Model P&W PW123
"Christine"
N444YV DH8-202Q 444 frist flight 12/1/1997
Ex-UAX, first HPX DH8 to US/UA

Mesa Airlines, Inc.
Accident occurred Sunday, February 03, 2008 in Denver, CO
Probable Cause Approval Date: 4/30/2008
Aircraft: de Havilland DHC-8-202, registration: N444YV
Injuries: 1 Serious, 1 Minor, 20 Uninjured.
The flight was descending from 14,000 feet to 13,000 feet when it encountered severe turbulence. The FASTEN SEATBELTS sign was reportedly illuminated. The captain called the flight attendant on the intercom, but she did not answer. An emergency medical technician (EMT), who was a passenger on the flight, answered and reported the flight attendant was lying on the floor unconscious. The EMT and an off-duty United flight attendant tended to the injured flight attendant. The captain declared an emergency and the airplane landed at its destination. The flight attendant was transported to a hospital with serious injuries.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

The encounter with severe turbulence causing serious injury to the flight attendant.

A view from my airplane window as we take-off from OAK early Saturday morning and head out over the San Francisco Bay on our way to Mesa, Arizona for the Memorial Celebration for Charlie Steele, my father-in-law who passed away on Jan. 17th.

Take-off was smooth sailing, but the return flight landing was in driving rain, and that was rather scary for me, as I am a nervous nelly when it comes to flying, despite the fact that I have been flying my entire life, even when I was in my mother's belly, as my Father worked for United Airlines for 40 years! My fear of flying developed around age 13 and has progressively worsened with age. Now I take a 1 mg. Ativan , a sedative, before each flight, which reduces the chances of me screaming during turbulence. I don't drink, so it's not like I can knock back a few as other fear-of-flying people do. But the Ativan does help a lot, and I don't recall screaming on a flight since my really bad episode on an outrageously turbulent flight during a winter storm in March of 1983. I had to be subdued by the flight attendants and my parents, and they gave me something that knocked me out cold, as I was scaring the other passengers.