Think before you take a flight PRAY first

[Sikodolaukazzz]

I have taken a couple of flights where the plane plunged and also in a hurricane.
Bottom line is use your seat belt.


Imagine the people of Gaza having to go through similar traumatic experiences everyday.

Passengers scream and pray as tropical storm batters plane mid-flight: ‘We saw that we were not going to survive’​

Passengers scream and pray as tropical storm batters plane mid-flight: ‘We saw that we were not going to survive’

In airspace, everyone can hear you scream.

Footage captured the dramatic moment that passengers freaked out aboard a plane that was getting battered by a tropical storm midflight.

“I have never experienced such bad weather on a flight,” Passenger Zuleima Ebratt told Jam Press of the “crazy,” spectacle, which occurred aboard a flight from Medellín to Barranquilla in Colombia yesterday.

The flight, Avianca Airlines 8586, had reportedly been rocked by a tropical gale that lashed the northern part of the country with 45mph winds.

“It was specifically when we began to descend to land in Barranquilla,” Ebratt recounted to local publication El Tiempo. “Up to that point the captain told us ‘We are going to land in Barranquilla’ and everything was normal. Suddenly, we entered a fog, we could no longer see anything and the turbulence began.”

 

[syed putra]

Then captain flew right into a storm. Not a fog. Normally the radar would have detected the storm and planes fly around it unless ground control says follow flight path to land.

 

[superpower]

This is a storm turbulence, not clear turbulence. The pilot should have picked it up on his radar miles away and route the plane round the storm.

Given the more violent storms we're encountering in a global warming age, planes should simply avoid flying through areas with known severe turbulence, e.g. Bay of Bengal during the monsoon months. It burns more fuel, make routes longer, but it makes flights safer. The extra fuel cost can be worked into the flight ticket price.