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A United Airlines flight was diverted on the way to Chicago after multiple passengers suffered injuries from turbulence. Severe turbulence on United Airlines flight causes Chicago-bound plane to ...
WHAT IS TURBULENCE? Turbulence or pockets of disturbed air can have many causes, most obviously the unstable weather patterns that trigger storms, according to an industry briefing by planemaker ...
Experts have described turbulence as ‘common’ and asserted that it ‘rarely’ leads to fatalities.
In meteorology, clear-air turbulence (CAT) is the turbulent movement of air masses in the absence of any visual clues such as clouds, and is caused when bodies of air moving at widely different speeds meet.
Everything you need to know about how turbulence can impact your flight
Two dangerous effects of cumulonimbus have been put forward to explain the crash of flight AF447 that sank into the sea on 31 May 2009 about 600 kilometres (370 mi) northeast of Brazil. It encountered a mesoscale convective system in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (known by sailors as the " doldrums "), where cumulonimbus rise to more than ...
US Airways Express Flight 3758 airplane slid off the runway while landing at T.F. Green Airport on December 16, 2007. The flight, carrying 31 passengers and three crew members from Philadelphia, slid off the runway after landing shortly before 5 pm. No injuries were reported and the incident was assumed to be related to the weather. [160]
The cause of the turbulence is under investigation. Singapore Airlines said the Singapore-bound flight from London encountered severe turbulence about 10 hours after departure.