Dangers of Turbulence - Episode 228
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2024
- Planes that experience turbulence in flight are getting a lot of headline attention lately. During one widely covered incident of turbulence in May 2024 a passenger aboard a Singapore Airlines flight was killed.
Serious turbulence leading to injuries is not uncommon. Todd Curtis and John Goglia discuss several notable in-flight turbulence events, including the death of 1950s era test pilot Scott Crossfield.
Specific and useful information about turbulence conditions is often not readily available. However, pilots can avoid turbulence, either by adjusting the planned flight to miss major areas of turbulence or by deciding not to take off if the risks are high.
Airline passengers also have a role in dealing with turbulence dangers. Seat belts and keeping items stowed in flight minimize the risks in bumpy conditions.
I just finished watching/listening the latest. As always, I enjoy the analysis and advice from what you all do. I used to be a motorcycle safety instructor so I understand FULLY the importance of learning safety and practicing it, not just letting it go in one ear and out the other. I hope you keep doing this for a long time. I also subscribe to and read thoroughly every issue of Aviation Safety magazine. It's not cheap by any means because they don't have advertisements in it, but I find I learn something from almost every article and for sure every issue. You have to think and practice safety all the time to keep something that could be dangerous as less dangerous and more fun.
“Make your meeting or meet your maker”. There’s your t-shirt, gentlemen.
I always stay belted but I learned more about causes of turbulence in your post than in my entire backseater career, which started on a DC8 in 1966.
It’s funny because I’ve been riding motorcycles for decades, and I often correlate flying and riding motorcycles as far as safety and the amount of damage that can be done to the human body with either machine if things aren’t done properly