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May 21, 2024
10:26:52pm

4mack All-American

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4mack

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Last login: Jun 14, 2024
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Time

Update on what is known about the Singapore flight that hit turbulence

Division Bell Recovering

May 21, 10:17pm

yikes

4mack

May 21, 10:26pm

Not taking lightly the admonition to wear seatbelts while seated.

Archaea

May 21, 10:29pm

So kind of a freak incident of nature I guess?

Mister P

May 21, 10:34pm

What kind of turbulence forces a plane to drop suddenly for so long? I understand how lift works with airspeed

SierraCoug

May 21, 10:38pm

How long?

Tesla Coug

May 21, 10:42pm

Yeah, my bad. I guess I assumed from the description of a dramatic drop, it was more than just a few seconds. The video

SierraCoug

May 21, 10:46pm

Down drafts in a storm cloud is one way.

StantonMac

May 21, 10:47pm

And microbursts (lower to the ground)

May 21, 10:56pm

“Drop” is a word that gets used often by passengers in these situations. It’s what they feel. The truth is though very

May 21, 11:10pm

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J. Walter Weatherman

May 21, 11:37pm

I think I saw it was a 100 foot descent followed by a 300 ascent

StantonMac

May 22, 8:15am

That’s not very much fluctuation especially in severe to extreme turbulence.

May 22, 8:35am

This is the video I saw

StantonMac

May 22, 8:58am

It dropped about 6000 feet

JOPE

May 22, 12:20am

I suspect that it did not drop 6,000 feet.

May 22, 8:42am

The stories are saying now that it suddenly and sharply descended 6000 feet in 3 minutes

JOPE

May 22, 9:10am

Even that’s not dropping. That’s a 2,000 foot per minute descent which is pretty normal on most descents.

May 22, 9:22am

I once knew a flight attendant who would wish for turbulent flights. That way,

May 21, 10:40pm

I watched a video that showed the weather radar at the time

StantonMac

May 21, 10:46pm

I served with a Bishop that on a return business trip flight from Japan, that

RebelScum

May 21, 11:50pm

So he said a passenger aircraft was inverted? As Iceman would say, that's bovine

Emmett Fitz-Hume

May 22, 12:33am

No, he never said it was inverted. He just said it rolled and went into a dive.

RebelScum

May 23, 11:46pm

Pure nightmare fuel

DavisCoCoug

May 22, 3:30am

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