A Q400 flight attendant was unable to walk from the back of the aircraft to remove passenger service...

Narrative:

While I was going through cabin about mid-way; flight attendant B received a call from flight deck. She was a few rows up from the back of the cabin. Immediately after talking with flight deck; we got the 10;000 ft chime. She made the PA for clean up and began to move forward. I was walking toward her to be briefed on flight deck call and to assist in final clean-up. It became extremely turbulent at that time so we both had to sit down in the back of aircraft. We made an announcement that I would come through the cabin to pick up any remaining service items as soon as it was possible. It never became possible so we asked passengers to place service items on the floor. I was unable to make it to the forward jumpseat for landing. After we landed we made an announcement for passengers to stay seated so I could make it forward for deplaning. I was not in forward jumpseat during landing. The event occurred to do unexpected turbulence. For safety reasons I could not get through the cabin.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Q400 Flight Attendant was unable to walk from the back of the aircraft to remove passenger service items or be in the required jumpseat for landing because of turbulence.

Narrative: While I was going through cabin about mid-way; Flight Attendant B received a call from flight deck. She was a few rows up from the back of the cabin. Immediately after talking with flight deck; we got the 10;000 FT chime. She made the PA for clean up and began to move forward. I was walking toward her to be briefed on flight deck call and to assist in final clean-up. It became extremely turbulent at that time so we both had to sit down in the back of aircraft. We made an announcement that I would come through the cabin to pick up any remaining service items as soon as it was possible. It never became possible so we asked passengers to place service items on the floor. I was unable to make it to the forward jumpseat for landing. After we landed we made an announcement for passengers to stay seated so I could make it forward for deplaning. I was not in forward jumpseat during landing. The event occurred to do unexpected turbulence. For safety reasons I could not get through the cabin.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

Attributes
ACN	981294
Time
Date	201111
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Q400
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent Final Approach Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty) Flight Attendant In Charge
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

A Q400 flight attendant was unable to walk from the back of the aircraft to remove passenger service items or be in the required jumpseat for landing because of turbulence.