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Passengers tell of terror as Heathrow-bound flight plummets in heavy turbulence
standard.co.uk ^ | Sebastian Mann

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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1 posted on 08/31/2016 5:03:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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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.


2 posted on 08/31/2016 5:05:44 PM PDT by corkoman
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I always wear the seat belt even if a little loose.


3 posted on 08/31/2016 5:07:27 PM PDT by Parley Baer (")
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To: BenLurkin

Always wear your seat belt if in your seat!!


4 posted on 08/31/2016 5:10:17 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: BenLurkin

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. :-)


5 posted on 08/31/2016 5:10:49 PM PDT by Dragonfly
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To: atc23

Yes, always!


6 posted on 08/31/2016 5:12:25 PM PDT by Dragonfly
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To: BenLurkin

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.


7 posted on 08/31/2016 5:16:24 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Dragonfly

I don’t think many people have ever been on flights that DIDN’T experience CAT. It can get scary.


8 posted on 08/31/2016 5:17:19 PM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: BenLurkin
“He just said it was very unexpected turbulence. He said normally they see the warning signs and go around it,” she said.

"Are you telling us everything?"

"Not exactly. We're also out of coffee."


9 posted on 08/31/2016 5:20:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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LMAO.


10 posted on 08/31/2016 5:22:37 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: BenLurkin
"I have just turned the seat belt sign off and you are free to move about the cabin but we recommend that while seated you keep your seat belt securely fasten as we do here in the cockpit, Turbulence, while infrequent, can be severe and come without warning .Keeping your seat belt fastened will allow you to read or relax without having to keep on the alert for the seat belt sign"

Quote,

D.C.!

P.A. off..."You friggin' morons."

11 posted on 08/31/2016 5:24:22 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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...the pilot did not address passengers until about five minutes after the turbulence

Aviate.Navigate.Communicate.

the pilot got it right...
12 posted on 08/31/2016 5:27:30 PM PDT by MaskedMan (The)
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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.


13 posted on 08/31/2016 5:28:30 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: BenLurkin

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


14 posted on 08/31/2016 5:30:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: BenLurkin

That is one of the several reasons I avoid flying.


15 posted on 08/31/2016 5:32:31 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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"... and everybody who was unbuckled went flying.”

Says it all.

16 posted on 08/31/2016 5:36:07 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Dragonfly

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.


17 posted on 08/31/2016 5:43:33 PM PDT by CheathamCountyTN
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To: BenLurkin

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.


18 posted on 08/31/2016 5:44:26 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dfwgator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZg21g5_RY


19 posted on 08/31/2016 5:50:31 PM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: Dragonfly

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.


20 posted on 08/31/2016 5:51:37 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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