Flying to Orlando - Turbulence question.

[Scrooge]

Well crash is a little bit different from emergency landing,the way modern airliners are built and the way that airline pilots fly the aircraft you wont find any cases,if the turbulence on radar is to great the pilots will fly around it.While doing a quick search for emergency landings I did find a case of a 172 having its wings snapped !

Originally posted by VS045

VS045- I must correct you their- I think it is quite common for an airline to request an emergency landing or ambulance on stand due to turbulence. I remember watching an episode of Airport when the ambulance crew were called to an arriving BD flight that had requested priorty in the stack at LHR becuase they had hit servere turbulence and a crew member was hurt. The ambulance crew said it was quite common....

By "emergency landing" I actually meant to crash. I was just trying to find a better word for those of a more sensitive disposition.[:I]

Sorry for the confusion!

Cheers,
VS045

I know somewhat different but lets not forget the AA plane that crashed in Oct 2001 due to wake TURBULENCE killing all on board, so this, IMHO, is proof enough that turbulence can cause a plane to crash.

Paul

Also, I am sure I remember reading that aircraft have been pushed into the ground during landing (and crashed) caused by storm downwinds, which again are a form of turbulence.

Paul

Great, now that we are all happy and cheerful, let's head to the airport!

I thought that was called windsheer and is a result of bad weather
( thunderstorms ) systems in close proximity to runways.

Might be nice at this juncture to highlight the positives and overall safety of flying, for our nervous flyers;)

[preiffer]

It's either windsheer, or a "microburst". MB's are naaaaaasty. (But very rare )

Originally posted by easygoingeezer
Might be nice at this juncture to highlight the positives and overall safety of flying, for our nervous flyers;)

Yes, as I am one of them[:0] Physics can't quite explain convincingly to me how to make metal lighter than air[|:)] I think flight is obtained by will power, take a look around you when you next take off at all those around you holding on to the arm rest saying 'fly yer bugger!' (thx to Mr Peter Kay!)

Paul

Yes, as I am one of them Physics can't quite explain convincingly to me how to make metal lighter than air I think flight is obtained by will power, take a look around you when you next take off at all those around you holding on to the arm rest saying 'fly yer bugger!' (thx to Mr Peter Kay!)

Paul

A friend told me how on a flight back from MCO during the turbulence a group of people in the middle block on a 744 were all holding hands and praying. Now there's your will power!:D

Cheers,
VS045

Jet Blue used to have a video playing on the IFE around takeoff for meditation and yoga and as the wheels lifted off, the screen went OOOOOMMMMMMMM.....

I was amused and reassured, to say the least!

My bro has an experience when flying to Canada several years ago when out of the blue the plane hit some severe turbulance and dropped quite sharply for a second. He said you wouldn't have thought it that bad but 4-5 rows ahead of him a woman came clean out her seat and cracked her head on the cabin roof!! Cut her head but was OK, but still took her of in an ambulance on landing, thankfully they were only an hour or so from the airport.

Thats why I always keep my belt on when in my seat. Actually, how come the toilets don't have seatbelts

Don't know if some aircraft are more prone, but have never suffered bad turbulance on a 747. 777's on the otherhand..... My worst ever flight was on a 777 (Delta) into ATL during a hurricane in 2004. Screming, spewing and fainting in abundance. It was like a sceene from a disastar movie. First time i've seen horizontal rain. About 1/2 hour after we landed they ceased all ground operations. Connecting flight to SFO (767) was 2 hours late and only had 20 pax on it as Delta gave the pax the option to fly next day. On take off from ATL it took 20 minutes plus to clime above the cloud, then not a spot of turbulance all the way to SFO. What a day, Go figure ?

Fadge

To this day the worst turbulence I have ever been in was in Saudia Arabia. My dad used to work for Aramco and we lived fairly well south of Dharan and so the company had a small plane that would take employees up there on weekends.

As we would go over a place called Hofuf the plane would always hit really bad turbulence, so bad that we were literally bouncing, I would hold my mum for dear life but my brother thought it all a great hoot (he was around 8 at the time!) and with every bounce would laugh out loud. Needless to say he would get a fair amount of dirty looks from other passengers.

nmurrell - we fly from MAN to MCO and it always seems worse on the flight home, we have always presumed we probably think its worse as we are on our way home[n]