Eine Flugbegleiterin erlitt während schwerer Turbulenzen auf einem Flug in der Türkei einen Rückfall – der dritte größere Zwischenfall dieser Art innerhalb einer Woche
https://www.businessinsider.com/turbulence-incident-flight-attendant-breaks-back-turkish-airlines-singapore-airlines-2024-5?IR=T
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From the source:
* A flight attendant broke her back on a short domestic flight in Turkey after the plane hit turbulence.
* The incident is the third case this week of mid-flight turbulence causing injuries and even death.
* The three incidents are not linked, but turbulence is getting worse, a 2023 study showed
What’s going on up there in the lower atmosphere?
I’m sorry about the flight attendant. But as a species we kinda deserve everytbign coming for us, fux around with nature and find out.
Is the turbulence also because of climate change? Are these turbulent air pockets more prominent in summers than winters?
Global warming or boeing? Or both?
While this sucks, it should not deter anyone from flying. I don’t like the nickel and dimming airlines do to customers or the services standards… but it’s very safe to fly.
There is roughly (very rough numbers) about a 100,000 passenger flights every day, globally. These flights can range between 150 passengers to 500+ passengers. Take a conservative average of 200 passengers across all flights. It amounts to 20,000,000.00 people a day moved… the chance of something happening to you like this would be 0.000005%
In 2023, the aviation industry achieved a notable milestone with no fatal accidents involving passenger jet aircraft. This made it one of the safest years in aviation history. There were a total of 37 million flights, and the overall accident rate improved to 0.80 per million flights, the lowest in over a decade.
While all incidents regarding airline safety should be addressed immediately and steps should be taken to fix the issues.
I hate headlines that put unnecessary fear in to the masses.
Was this while she was being raped in the lavatory?
Turbulence causes injuries everyday. Is it a slow news week?
No, turbulence injured people everyday since flight was invented.
“Thspinal”
[There are some old computer models which show that an increase in global CO2 levels will lead to increased frequency and severity of clear air turbulence, at least in the North Atlantic Ocean.](https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1866) This type of turbulence is one that is particularly difficult to detect by on board radar and [have caused injuries and deaths in the past](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulence#Cases). It would be interesting to see if these models can be confirmed retrospectively now that we have an additional decade of data, and whether if this can be extrapolated to other regions of the world.
Welp, guess I’m not travelling anymore for the rest of my life
It’s getting silly now. Turbulence happens every fucking day, I dare say on every single flight. I suspect people have been getting hurt by turbulence daily for years.
You have one high profile one in the press and then every single instance gets reported on. It’s sensationalism. Keep flying, wear your seatbelt.
This feels like the opening news montage of a Roland Emmerich disaster movie.
So is this (apparent) increase in the number of reports of injury due to turbulence just improved reporting (ie WWW), increased number of planes, new routes, climate change, or a combination?
Does this mean we’ll have to avoid turbulence by flying even higher, potentially above the atmosphere entirely ?
This could be done by either more advanced jets or large rocket planes.
I am scared for my next flight. Amy tips? I know that Turbulence can’t bring a plane down (since 1980s) but it scares the living hell out of me
As real climate change begins to awaken, we will see a lot more of this. I for one will be limiting my flights
Don’t pilots have radar that that can detect high probability of turbulence?
I believe there are around 3000 flights a day around the world so that would be 21000 flights with three incidents, so that one every 7k flights. Most people wouldn’t have 200 flights in their lives. It’s always occured, there was one bad one last week. You can probably estimate the odds for a bad one, very long indeed.
Wtf is going on with all the planes??
Where was the turbulence with the plane with the man who died? Was it also in Turkey?
Afaik the turbulence issue is due to increased heat in the atmosphere resulting in more energy for eddie currents to form. This kind of reminds me of Kessel Syndrome, where at some point we might pollute orbital space to the point where space launches are continuously at risk of debris collisions, making space launches increasingly risky and therefore less common. I wonder if we’re reaching a similar tipping point with atmospheric heating where routine flights will increasingly become more risky due to the increasing atmospheric turbulence.
Why does this sound like one of the preludes in apocalyptic type movie? 😔
The air itself is shaking us off
First orcas attack all these boats and now there seems to be something like this going on in the sky also.
I experienced very bad turbulence on exactly the same route
Now they’re gonna blame climate change? Does Taylor Swift, and all the other Elites have the same issue with their private jets?
Is there a point at which future turbulence will be too strong for modern aircraft?