Severe Turbulence on SFO-Hong Kong Flight Injures Nine

SF Weekly ^ | Wed., Feb. 19 2014 | Erin Sherbert

[GeronL]

have they blamed global warming yet?

[Gay State Conservative]

I've done a fair amount of flying in my day and have experience some pretty bumpy weather.But this is the kind of thing that would place me in need of a change of underwear.

[Still Thinking]

Um, "turbulence", yeah that's it!

[Autonomous User]

Passengers were tossed from their seats, and some were thrown into the overhead bins...

Now that is something I’d like to see. I can’t even get my carry-on into an overhead bin and yet a little turbulance can send a passenger into one! Must have been a small asian.... :)

[Still Thinking]

“Secret....Aaaasian Man!”

[GeronL]

with enough force they can get us into a tin can I bet. lol

[Autonomous User]

Now There’s a man who leads a life of danger!

[workerbee]

I can pretty much assure you that if I ever experienced a flight like that, and lived to tell about it, I wouldn’t fly again.

[Autonomous User]

Welcome to modern air travel!

[AlexW]

As advised by the crew, one should ALWAYS keep their seat-belt fastened during the flight.
My extra advice...Go to the toilet just before boarding.

[Greysard]

I can pretty much assure you that if I ever experienced a flight like that, and lived to tell about it, I wouldn’t fly again.

There is a simpler solution. I would just tighten the seat belt.

[jocon307]

Didn’t the same thing just happen on a US flight? I think it landed in Minnesota or someplace like that. The passengers were mostly OK I think because they were already belted in for the landing, but some of the flight attendants got pretty banged up.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I can pretty much assure you that if I ever experienced a flight like that, and lived to tell about it, I wouldn’t fly again.”

Several years back I was on a 767 flight from Houston to Newark to when we hit some serious turbulence. It was so bad they had to route us around a storm and we wound up coming in from upstate NY.

I was in the back of the plane. We were tossed all over the place, people were injured, vomit everywhere.

I now fly only when it is absolutely necessary. Two years ago my company sent me to Amsterdam to do a job. I asked them if I could go by ocean liner. It was the scariest 8 hours of my life and the ride was smooth sailing.

[rsobin]

Global climate change.

[fr_freak]

I can pretty much assure you that if I ever experienced a flight like that, and lived to tell about it, I wouldn’t fly again.

A guy I used to work with was on a flight like that years before I met him - he said the plane suddenly lost so much altitude that some eardrums got popped. He refused ever to fly again. His team was located several hundred miles from ours, so when we had our yearly group meetings, he took the train, had to leave a couple of days early (eh, Amtrak).

[Trod Upon]

What, and miss out on getting molested by the apes from TSA?

[grumpygresh]

Usually the long flights over oceans are pretty good. Most of the time they can avoid bad weather unless it is near the departure or destination.
Now, mountains in the winter with an active weather pattern are not so good.
To avoid T-storms, avoid flying around dusk.
But, I don’t know why, but that light/ medium chop on the plane as always bothered me a lot more than more vigorous pitching on the sea.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]