[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35203666[/url]
[url]http://www.aircanada.com/en/news/151230.html[/url]
[quote=excerpt]The Air Canada flight from Shanghai to Toronto was diverted to Calgary after the turbulence hit.
Eight passengers suffered neck and back injuries and 13 more were taken to hospital for observation.
The injured were in a stable condition, an emergency services spokesman said.
[B]"Suddenly the flight is just going down and everything is really scary. The girl sitting next to me, she was sleeping and she just fly up [to the ceiling]."[/B][/quote]
Turbulence is some freaky shit... but the people being flailed into the ceiling is just bizarre.
This is why you always wear your seatbelt if you are not moving around.
[QUOTE=Orki;49425929]This is why you always wear your seatbelt if you are not moving around.[/QUOTE]
thing is orkel, those seatbelts aren't the most effective thing in economy class. If you jolt forward, you'll still smash your head into the seat.
The feeling of a free-fall in midflight is absolutely terrifying... for whatever reason, it feels like your innerds shift upwards. And I've done a skydive from 12k feet, that was floating in comparison to turbulence. :(
[QUOTE=Orki;49425929]This is why you always wear your seatbelt if you are not moving around.[/QUOTE]
Even the ones with their seat belt suffered injuries
Clear air turbulence can be pretty scary, it's undetectable so you can be at cruising altitude and just suddenly drop.
[URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulence"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulence[/URL]
How ironic.
Extreme turbulence over an economically turbulent province.
Captain was probably asleep while the plane was on autopilot
[QUOTE=AK'z;49425995]thing is orkel, those seatbelts aren't the most effective thing in economy class. If you jolt forward, you'll still smash your head into the seat.
The feeling of a free-fall in midflight is absolutely terrifying... for whatever reason, it feels like your innerds shift upwards. And I've done a skydive from 12k feet, that was floating in comparison to turbulence. :([/QUOTE]
The seatbelts don't have to stop you from hitting your head on the seat in front. Turbulence causes the plane to rise or fall, not jolt forwards or backwards. I think something would have to be very wrong to slow the plane enough that you jolt forwards :v:
[QUOTE=AK'z;49425995]
The feeling of a free-fall in midflight is absolutely terrifying... for whatever reason, it feels like your innerds shift upwards. And I've done a skydive from 12k feet, that was floating in comparison to turbulence. :([/QUOTE]
Your innards do shift upwards because gravity momentarily no longer drags them downwards in relation to the rest of your body. In skydiving the same happens, but only once at the start, predictably.
In turbulence you cannot expect it, it may happen several times and each shift over a longer span of time compared to falling off something.
[QUOTE=650leetARIMI;49426217]Captain was probably asleep while the plane was on autopilot[/QUOTE]
Uhhh, pretty sure there is always at least one person awake in the cockpit and at the controls at all times.
Whats with the Club symbol in the title anyway?
[QUOTE=jamzzster;49426018]Clear air turbulence can be pretty scary, it's undetectable so you can be at cruising altitude and just suddenly drop.
[URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulence"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulence[/URL][/QUOTE]
Dude, that explains it
Once I was with my cousin flying to US, and as a soon we took off from Ezeiza airport, our plane started shaking, but I don't mean your "Oh look turbulence", I mean your "Oh shit there's a lady screaming and this piece of junk feels like it's going to make us die"
I just looked at my cousin and said to him "Well, you were a good cousin and this trip surely would have been lots of fun"
[editline]31st December 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=MadBomber;49426451]Whats with the Club symbol in the title anyway?[/QUOTE]
It's the flag leaf I guess
[QUOTE=Orki;49425929]This is why you always wear your seatbelt if you are not moving around.[/QUOTE]
Hmmph.. N'yeah.. Okay..
Jesus my mom was on this flight
[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;49426482]It's the flag leaf I guess[/QUOTE]
There's also a flag emoji, but it's probably not supported by many devices (including my browser, so I have no idea if this works): 🇨🇦
[QUOTE=650leetARIMI;49426217]Captain was probably asleep while the plane was on autopilot[/QUOTE]
I'm confused on how this is relevant to anything in the thread. Especially the autopilot part.
[QUOTE=AK'z;49425995]
The feeling of a free-fall in midflight is absolutely terrifying... for whatever reason, it feels like your innerds shift upwards. And I've done a skydive from 12k feet, that was floating in comparison to turbulence. :([/QUOTE]
That is my favorite part of a plane flight, feeling like you are weightless. This, however, is a bit extreme.
Clear air turbulence is hard to find, but we can generally identify regions it can occur. There was a story on /r/flying of a king air that hit a region of clear air turbulence so bad that it popped rivets on the fuselage. The damage was severe enough to cause decompression, and the aircraft had to be scrapped.
Unlikely the pilots could have done anything but recover and then land ASAP, since clear air turbulence can cause (usually not critical) damage
Was on a flight a few years back and pretty much 2 minutes after takeoff, the plane just dipped multiple times. Not a small, "this ain't so bad" dip. The gut-wrenching, "oh God we're gonna die" dipping.
I just froze up and was genuinely convinced the plane was fucked, whilst everyone around me was praying to their own respective Gods.
The most terrifying thing ever and it only made me hate flying even more.
[QUOTE=loopoo;49436538]Was on a flight a few years back and pretty much 2 minutes after takeoff, the plane just dipped multiple times. Not a small, "this ain't so bad" dip. The gut-wrenching, "oh God we're gonna die" dipping.
I just froze up and was genuinely convinced the plane was fucked, whilst everyone around me was praying to their own respective Gods.
The most terrifying thing ever and it only made me hate flying even more.[/QUOTE]
How large of an aircraft? What was the weather that day? If it was a small aircraft departing a busy airport could have been residual wake turbulence from heavies. If a hot day, air pockets that cause dips like that are exceedingly common. Mountains are also hot zones of clear air turbulence- usually its just a consistent updraft but certain formations are known to cause severe turbulence.
Aircraft are remarkably strong and resilient, especially commercial aircraft. Turbulence is not going to down the aircraft or damage it enough that it can't land somewhere. BOAC Flight 911 is the only known incidence of an aircraft being destroyed by CAT, and that was due to lee-wave turbulence over goddamn mount fuji. We have a much better understanding of it nowadays, but incidents involving mild injuries may increase since global warming is highly likely to increase the incidence of CAT
No it was a big Boeing, we were flying from UK to Dubai. Weather was clear and sunny, so it really confused me as I thought turbulence only occurred in gloomy weather.
[QUOTE=loopoo;49436650]No it was a big Boeing, we were flying from UK to Dubai. Weather was clear and sunny, so it really confused me as I thought turbulence only occurred in gloomy weather.[/QUOTE]
nope, clear and sunny makes unpredictable turbulence more likely. generally cloud formations and how they are formed (especially shapes) can be used to guess at turbulent regions or see them outright.
turbulence is a non-issue. as much as you can, don't stress it.
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