A flight encountered moderate turbulence during descent. One flight attendant was injured.

Attributes
ACN	1337451
Time
Date	201603
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Widebody Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 180 Flight Crew Total 18335 Flight Crew Type 8317
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Total 1887
Events
Anomaly	Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

During descent we were advised of reported moderate turbulence below 20;000. As we already had seat belt sign on and airspeed of 270 for light turbulence on descent and being vectored for approach; first officer started slowing toward 250 and I informed flight attendants to take their seats. Continued descent from 27;000 to assigned altitude of 16;000 and at about 20;000 encountered moderate turbulence for about 2-3 minutes. At 4;000 feet and on final first flight attendant called cockpit to inform us that a crewmember in aft galley had not gotten to his seat and fell hurting his ankle and requested we call for paramedics.paramedics met the aircraft and decided to take the injured flight attendant to hospital for x-rays. As of this report I do not know if he had a sprain; ligament tear or hair line fracture to his left ankle. He stated that he went up and came down on ankle in turbulence. He has to stay at the layover for 10 days until released back to duty. Weather was VMC and no aircraft in front of us and we had just passed a mountain range.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A flight encountered moderate turbulence during descent. One flight attendant was injured.

Narrative: During descent we were advised of reported moderate turbulence below 20;000. As we already had seat belt sign on and airspeed of 270 for light turbulence on descent and being vectored for approach; first officer started slowing toward 250 and I informed flight attendants to take their seats. Continued descent from 27;000 to assigned altitude of 16;000 and at about 20;000 encountered moderate turbulence for about 2-3 minutes. At 4;000 feet and on final first flight attendant called cockpit to inform us that a crewmember in aft galley had not gotten to his seat and fell hurting his ankle and requested we call for paramedics.Paramedics met the aircraft and decided to take the injured flight attendant to hospital for X-rays. As of this report I do not know if he had a sprain; ligament tear or hair line fracture to his left ankle. He stated that he went up and came down on ankle in turbulence. He has to stay at the layover for 10 days until released back to duty. Weather was VMC and no aircraft in front of us and we had just passed a mountain range.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.