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Experts have described turbulence as ‘common’ and asserted that it ‘rarely’ leads to fatalities.
Air travel and turbulence have always gone hand in hand with many flights, especially long haul, experiencing spells of bumpiness. The severe episode on board a Singapore Airlines plane in which ...
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 ...
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.
A United Airlines Boeing 737 diverted to Memphis after some passengers were injured by severe turbulence. The flight landed in Chicago two hours late.
National Transportation Safety Board diagram from its accident report showing the paths of Delta Air Lines Flight 954 (dotted red line) and North Central Airlines Flight 575 (dashed blue line) at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on December 20, 1972. The ground controller intended for Flight 954 to hold in the 32R run-up pad ...
Its number-one engine had been severed on the runway. It was the deadliest plane crash in U.S. history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. American Airlines Flight 444 was attacked by the Unabomber on November 15, 1979, near Chicago Illinois. The bomb planted in the cargo hold malfunctioned, but 12 passengers had to be treated for smoke ...
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