"Are you telling us everything?"
"Not exactly. We're also out of coffee."
Posted on 08/31/2016 5:03:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
She said: “We were at least three hours into the flight, everybody had eaten and was asleep.
“It was very quiet. There seemed to be lots of children on the flight.
“Then out of the blue the plane just dropped and everybody who was unbuckled went flying.”
She said people flew headlong into the ceiling of the plane, suffering cuts to their heads. A few passengers had broken bones, she claimed.
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The flight attendant across from me, she slammed her head. She’ll need stitches.”
The plane plummeted twice, Ms Boriack said, and during the second fall many of the flight’s 207 passengers were screaming.
“Each drop lasted a couple of seconds. There was a loud bang. We assumed it was something in the galley.
“That was when everybody got really scared.
“The worst part was during the second drop – people were screaming. I had to keep my cool.
“It felt like a rollercoaster. The drops were that long.
“I was very scared, but other people were screaming.”
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She added it was another three hours before the flight arrived in Shannon.
There was no warning and the pilot did not address passengers until about five minutes after the turbulence, she said.
“He just said it was very unexpected turbulence. He said normally they see the warning signs and go around it,” she said.
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If this was an overnight flight...everyone but the flight att crew should be buckled down. It can happen at any time.
I always wear the seat belt even if a little loose.
Always wear your seat belt if in your seat!!
This is terrifying indeed! Many years ago we had a very similar experience flying non-stop from Asia to the US west coast in early November. The pilot announced clear skies and to sit back and relax. etc. Our plane dropped 1,000 feet and several people got hurt. I have been quite uneasy flying since then, although it’s getting much better. The worst part of our story was that we still had to fly back to Asia (where we lived at the time) in a couple of weeks and I was scared to even think about it. Come to think of it, I’ll have to fly this Friday again, thankfully on a short flight. :-)
Yes, always!
Many years ago I experienced that on a plane out of Houston west. Stewardesses screaming alerted the rest of us that it was unusual. No explanation given. Really heart stopping.
I don’t think many people have ever been on flights that DIDN’T experience CAT. It can get scary.
"Are you telling us everything?"
"Not exactly. We're also out of coffee."
LMAO.
Quote,
D.C.!
P.A. off..."You friggin' morons."
we experienced something like this (not quite as bad sounding, and it turned out to be a mechanical malfunction not weather).... on a flight between PitsburgPA and Lansing.
the plane was already over MI but the pilot said we had to return to Pittsburg because that’s where the plane could be serviced. understandable the airline would want to get the damned plane to its service shop, but we passengers would have preferred just finishing the last five or ten minutes and getting to our destination. or touching down quicker if there were another landing strip the plane could use. ANYWAY we got back to Pittsburg and ... well, as you can see, pasengers were in one piece even if the plane maybe wasn’t.
ps: that flight was a few years back before the Moslem terror attacks on airplanes became so much more frequent....
we understand it was “just” a maintenance issue and not an Islamic bombing or anything like that
That is one of the several reasons I avoid flying.
Says it all.
I had a similar experience years ago traveling from Europe to the Middle East where we lived. I had a 2 yr old and a baby with me. Middle of the night..people sleeping..suddenly the plane just drops. Screams, cries, everyone asking what happened..and then it happened again. Everyone was terrified. The pilot never said a thing. Later we were told we were above Turkey where the wind drifts over the mountains and valleys were especially bad. Flying lost all its magic for me after that.
Really g*ddamn stupid not to be buckled in. Even having your seatbelt loosely buckled would be enough to keep you from injuring yourself or someone else. I never fly without my seatbelt on.
We had a Chinese plane land on an Aleutian base after a similar incident. To this day, I’m not sure it wasn’t pilot error or an attempt at espionage.
That plane dropped 5000’ and one passenger was killed. The plane looked like a tornado hit the interior—there was debris and blood everywhere, even a high-heeled shoe stuck in the ceiling. I’ve flown a lot and had many rough flights, but I never experienced anything like that.
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