40 people injured after Air Europa flight experiences heavy turbulence

imhotep

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    Aliens, climate change or what? :eek:
    Climate change... I usually take about six or more flights every year. Every time, over the last 15 years there's some sort of turbulence. Not severe but enough to temporarily suspend the food services or hot drinks.
    Once the aircraft fell more than 500 ft but everyone was fast asleep. I wasn't. it was a vertical drop.

    Here's what Geophysical researchers say after analysing data over four decades.

    "Turbulence is unpleasant to fly through in an aircraft. Strong turbulence can even injure air passengers and flight attendants. An invisible form called clear-air turbulence (CAT) is predicted to become more frequent because of climate change. Here we analyze modern atmospheric data based on four decades of observations (1979–2020) to investigate whether CAT has already started to increase. We use 21 different turbulence calculations to ensure our results are as reliable as possible. We find clear evidence of large CAT increases in various places around the world at aircraft cruising altitudes since satellites began observing the atmosphere. For example, at a typical point over the North Atlantic, the upward trend is such that the strongest category of CAT was 55% more frequent in 2020 than 1979. Our study represents the best evidence yet that CAT has increased over the past four decades, consistent with the expected effects of climate change."...


    Clear-Air Turbulence (CAT) is difficult to observe in advance of an aircraft's track using remote sensing methods. It's time something is developed.
    JAXA (Japanese space agency)/MItsubishi and a consortium from several European & Western countries are looking at new methods. JAXA/Mitsubishi has already devloped prototypes using Dual Pulse LIDAR technology.

    So for the moment only the birds seem to be equipped with detection technologies... :ROFLMAO:
     
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    AnuradhaRa

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    Climate change... I usually take about six or more flights every year. Every time, over the last 15 years there's some sort of turbulence. Not severe but enough to temporarily suspend the food services or hot drinks.
    Once the aircraft fell more than 500 ft but everyone was fast asleep. I wasn't. it was a vertical drop.

    Here's what Geophysical researchers say after analysing data over four decades.

    "Turbulence is unpleasant to fly through in an aircraft. Strong turbulence can even injure air passengers and flight attendants. An invisible form called clear-air turbulence (CAT) is predicted to become more frequent because of climate change. Here we analyze modern atmospheric data based on four decades of observations (1979–2020) to investigate whether CAT has already started to increase. We use 21 different turbulence calculations to ensure our results are as reliable as possible. We find clear evidence of large CAT increases in various places around the world at aircraft cruising altitudes since satellites began observing the atmosphere. For example, at a typical point over the North Atlantic, the upward trend is such that the strongest category of CAT was 55% more frequent in 2020 than 1979. Our study represents the best evidence yet that CAT has increased over the past four decades, consistent with the expected effects of climate change."...


    Clear-Air Turbulence (CAT) is difficult to observe in advance of an aircraft's track using remote sensing methods. It's time something is developed.
    JAXA (Japanese space agency)/MItsubishi and a consortium from several European & Western countries are looking at new methods. JAXA/Mitsubishi has already devloped prototypes using Dual Pulse LIDAR technology.

    So for the moment only the birds seem to be equipped with detection technologies... :ROFLMAO:
    ඔය වෙලාවට ප්ලේන් එක ගැස්සෙන හැටි පෙන්නන animation වගේ දෙයක් නැද්ද?
     

    Candid-B

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    Mother Earth
    Fly කරද්දී මම නම් seat බෙල්ට් එක loose කරලා දාගෙනමයි ඉන්නේ.

    අර සිංග flight එකේ එකෙක් මැරුණත් එක්ක නේද ලගදී.
    reason? why do you loosen the seat belt? 🤔
     

    Miami-Vice

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    Climate change... I usually take about six or more flights every year. Every time, over the last 15 years there's some sort of turbulence. Not severe but enough to temporarily suspend the food services or hot drinks.
    Once the aircraft fell more than 500 ft but everyone was fast asleep. I wasn't. it was a vertical drop.

    Here's what Geophysical researchers say after analysing data over four decades.

    "Turbulence is unpleasant to fly through in an aircraft. Strong turbulence can even injure air passengers and flight attendants. An invisible form called clear-air turbulence (CAT) is predicted to become more frequent because of climate change. Here we analyze modern atmospheric data based on four decades of observations (1979–2020) to investigate whether CAT has already started to increase. We use 21 different turbulence calculations to ensure our results are as reliable as possible. We find clear evidence of large CAT increases in various places around the world at aircraft cruising altitudes since satellites began observing the atmosphere. For example, at a typical point over the North Atlantic, the upward trend is such that the strongest category of CAT was 55% more frequent in 2020 than 1979. Our study represents the best evidence yet that CAT has increased over the past four decades, consistent with the expected effects of climate change."...


    Clear-Air Turbulence (CAT) is difficult to observe in advance of an aircraft's track using remote sensing methods. It's time something is developed.
    JAXA (Japanese space agency)/MItsubishi and a consortium from several European & Western countries are looking at new methods. JAXA/Mitsubishi has already devloped prototypes using Dual Pulse LIDAR technology.

    So for the moment only the birds seem to be equipped with detection technologies... :ROFLMAO:
    Thanks for the info (y)
    "...strongest category of CAT was 55% more frequent in 2020 than 1979." :-(
     
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