Turbulence can feel scary and now one pilot shared an insight into what the cabin crew see in the cockpit when the plane hits ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Severe turbulence hit a Hawaiian Airlines flight and left dozens injured in December 2022 because the cockpit crew chose to fly over a storm cell, rather than around it.
An Austrian Airlines passenger plane was seriously damaged after flying through an unexpected hailstorm on Sunday, June 9. Flight OS434 was traveling from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Vienna, Austria, ...
Turbulence, particularly clear air turbulence, is becoming more frequent and severe. The three main types of turbulence are mountain wave, convective, and clear air turbulence. Staying buckled up ...
There’s nothing quite like a “don’t sink” alert screaming at the cockpit to shake an airline and an industry into top gear. And that’s precisely what took place a mere 38 hours after the calamitous ...
Dozens aboard an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay on Monday were injured from severe turbulence, and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Brazil, marking the second such mid-air ...
Pilots go through the same bumpy turbulence as passengers, but they see it in a completely different way. They spend hundreds of hours learning exactly how much motion an airliner can safely absorb in ...
All frequent flyers have heard the pilot’s admonition, which usually goes something like this: “We recommend you keep your seat belts fastened while you are in your seats, just as we do in the cockpit ...
The skies can be clear, blue, and tranquil. "And all of a sudden, boom, you hit it," Dan Bubb, a former airline pilot and now an aviation historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told ...
Turbulence that injured more than a dozen people on a Delta Air Lines flight came with little warning to the pilots, even though they knew they were near thunderstorms, according to a new preliminary ...