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    Passengers on an Air New Zealand flight from Tokyo to Auckland have described the panic and chaos that erupted after the plane encountered horrific turbulence during dinner service.
    Passengers screamed as the plane dropped sharply twice without warning and started shaking violently sending wine arcing into the overhead luggage compartments and fully laden food trays littering aisles.

    The flight was an hour out of Tokyo when it dropped and started shaking, sending everything up in the air and spraying wine on to the cabin roof.

    One passenger, posting on Reddit with username Ollieislame, said the plane was filled with screams.
    "It was terrifying actually. I thought that might be the end of me. It was a red-eye flight so we got breakfast at the end of the flight in the morning.
    "We were only an hour into the flight. We had a little bump-de-bump at first and then all of a sudden the plane just dropped and started shaking like crazy.


    http://nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl...ectid=11575919
    AirDisaster.com Forum Member 2004-2008

    Originally posted by orangehuggy
    the most dangerous part of a flight is not the take off or landing anymore, its when a flight crew member goes to the toilet

  • #2
    "Horrific" turbulence... where does that fall on the "light-moderate-severe-extreme" scale?
    Be alert! America needs more lerts.

    Eric Law

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    • #3
      Originally posted by elaw
      "Horrific" turbulence...?
      That's from the terminology used on the customer side. Like when there's weather around and gate agents say stuff like: "The control tower has called the pilots and given them a departure time", or "that the weather has cleared up at the destination, so NOW you can leave".
      Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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      • #4
        Or "We're going to start boarding flight XXX in 10 minutes" even though they* know d**m well the flight won't actually be able to take off for an hour and a half!

        * "They" not necessarily meaning the gate agents, but you know *someone* knows this flight is going to be delayed...
        Be alert! America needs more lerts.

        Eric Law

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        • #5
          Originally posted by elaw View Post
          "Horrific" turbulence... where does that fall on the "light-moderate-severe-extreme" scale?
          Beyond.

          --- Judge what is said by the merits of what is said, not by the credentials of who said it. ---
          --- Defend what you say with arguments, not by imposing your credentials ---

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          • #6
            Originally posted by elaw View Post
            Or "We're going to start boarding flight XXX in 10 minutes" even though they* know d**m well the flight won't actually be able to take off for an hour and a half!

            * "They" not necessarily meaning the gate agents, but you know *someone* knows this flight is going to be delayed...
            Indeed.
            Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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