One person died and at least 85 people were admitted to hospitals after a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore, 163 passengers and crew on U.S. flights have been seriously injured by turbulence between 2009 and 2022, out of what theMost anyone who has ever flown in an aircraft has experienced turbulence, when the ride becomes bumpy due to turbulent air – a common occurrence in air travel.
So it's that very rapid, unload negative G, throwing people up in the air, and then the positive G that came very quickly after that threw them back down to the ground. So there's two places where they get hurt: hitting the ceiling and coming back down to the ground. When they run into each other, it's like two streams running together. So you see two rapids coming together. It creates additional turbulence. That can't be seen by radar on an airplane. So that is where the meteorologists before the flight come into play, where the meteorologists say, ooh, we see these two jet streams coming together, we see this area where there's potential for clear turbulence, and they'll brief the pilots before they even take off.