Accident: Boeing 737-7CT

The pilot’s inadvertent encounter with convectively induced turbulence from a broken line of embedded thunderstorms moving across the region. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the air traffic controller to issue pertinent weather information along the airplane’s route of flight due, in part, to the sector over-saturation and frequency congestion caused by damaged communication equipment and the inability to split the sector to alleviate some of the traffic volume.

NTSB docket DCA24FA143