Watching that plane survive heavy turbulence may actually help me stop anticipating loss of control inflight during every bout of light turbulence.
Couple weeks ago, 1 of my niece’s classmates had her sister and parents die in a small plane crash in St Petersburg. They were Australian and young girl was sent backthere to her grandparents like 36 hours later. Horrible shit
Apparently there's a massive cold front hitting Hawaii at the moment, and it's wreaking havoc on local weather conditions. From what I read, the plane flew through a thunderstorm and hit an air pocket that went undetected
When I was a teenager I was on a flight where a sudden loss of altitude caused zero gravity and I hit/tapped my head on the ceiling. The worst of it was a ranch drenched salad all over me. My dad landed on the arm rest and was in some pain. Free alcohol the rest of the trip and people were freaked out. I have worn my seat belt 100% of the time since.
Back in 1999 there was a Dassault Falcon private jet incident in Europe where technical problems caused the plane to oscillate vertically in an extremely violent fashion. Ten oscillations in 24 seconds between 4.5 to -3.5 G. Basically threw all of the passengers that weren't buckled into their seats around the cabin like ragdolls. Broke most of their necks instantly IIRC and destroyed the entire cabin. Seven of the ten passengers were killed. It was a super unlikely event but that knowledge will never leave my brain and for that reason I'll always remain buckled in if possible. And you should, too!
This happens WAY more often then people think. Flying Commercial as a whole is extremely safe, but those small prop planes go down all the time. It's sad shit. Couldn't pay me to get in one of them.
Negative, you're talking about Lukla. This wreck is in a much different location. I flew in/out of Lukla last November. Crazy. T'was terrifying.
Pokhara airport Nug Edit: should’ve refreshed the thread before posting. Also looks like I was wrong anyways.
The passengers probably had no idea and some probably still don’t know how close they were to hitting the water.
You don't think the passengers noticed dropping 1500 feet (2/3 of the plane's altitude) in about 12 seconds moments after takeoff?
Yes, I think most might have felt something but had no clue what was happening. There is a reason instrument flying can be incredibly disorienting. You have no reference outside the aircraft. Incredibly experienced pilots are killed by misinterpreting spatial cues and you expect a couple of exec platinums to realize what’s going on??? Hilarious. I mean shit. It’s been 60 days with zero tweets or in depth interviews. Do you think United paid off the 330 people on board to be quiet about the incident?
Those passengers knew something was up when the pilot pulled a fucking 3G climb to recover from the dive
No, I don’t think it happened at all. I don’t take some random guy who pays Elon $8 a month for a blue check mark to troll month old flight radar 24 pages as a reputable single source.
Based on this article and the weather conditions it reports, I'm guessing the plane hit some wind shear or a microburst
It's still not out of the question. The data for that article is still only coming from flightradar data, which absolutely can be erroneous. There's nothing from the plane's data, no comms from the plane or ATC, no reports of a crazy-ass flight by any of the more than 300 pax. A severe turbulence event, and pulling 3gs in a commercial plane usually triggers a maintenance inspection, but this plane continued on for more legs after landing in SFO. It's weird as fuck.
The article at least attributes United as having reported it and FAA as having received it, otherwise I’d be very skeptical. The guy seems sufficiently credible based on reporting background to not have made that up? But also that shit happens and the crew doesn’t call it in to ATC (and ATC doesn’t notice, just moves them on to the next waypoint?). very weird.
this united flight was the same day as the hawaiian airlines flight that had such bad turbulence that it made the news, supposedly definitely something weird going on in the air that day
there was a significant storm system in the area at the time which is what caused the turbulence and, i'm guessing, this incident as well
This is like the 3rd different instance I’ve seen this week. One of these days a collision is going to happen and everyone will be shocked it happened despite all these well documented near misses