Posted on 01/14/2023 6:39:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
A pilot on a Hawaiian Airlines flight said a plume-like cloud “shot” in front of the plane moments before severe turbulence that left more than two dozen people injured and damaged the aircraft last month, federal officials said Friday.
The pilot, a captain on the Dec. 18 flight from Phoenix to Honolulu, said conditions were smooth and on-board weather radar showed no turbulence as they flew above a layer of cirrostratus clouds at an altitude of between 37,000 and 38,000 feet, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report on the incident.
Just after 10 a.m., when the flight was 40 minutes from landing, a “cloud shot up vertically (like a smoke plume) in front of the airplane in a matter of seconds, and there was not enough time to deviate,” the report says.
The pilot told the lead flight attendant about the incoming weather, and within 1 to 3 seconds, the plane — an Airbus A330 — plowed into what the report described as “severely convectively induced turbulence,” the report says.
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Can a sub launched missile do such a thing?
I believe if the turbulence was a missile the pilots would have seen it, missiles tend to lead their air flow.
Preliminary NTSB report.
We won’t know anything more until the final report (1-2 years).
I expect ‘swamp gas’. /s
“Is there video of the plume?”
Probably not unless the plane had a dashcam.
Whale Fart.
If you are going to the bathroom, then it is just bad luck. If you are sitting in your seat WITHOUT the seatbelt going 500+ miles an hour at 38,000 feet, then you are STUPID and earn all the injuries you get!
On a recent flight from Sydney to Incheon my First Officers hit clear air turbulence wile I was in the bunk. Levitated my about a foot, then slammed me into the bunk. Dropped 750’ and the climbed 800’ above our assigned altitude. I knew I needed to be back in my seat but there was no safe way to get there!
“Not to mention all the underwear that had to be disposed of 😏” You just mentioned the “unmentionables”
comment should be on the recorder then...
A series of false flags might be on the verge of happening. I wouldn’t put it past these evil demons in charge.
Maybe it falls into this category?:
Moisture Advection
Transport of moisture by horizontal winds.
I’ll check that out, thanks.
I wasn’t entirely satisfied with that as a possible explanation since the cells were only “near” the flight path and the plume appeared directly in front of them.
(Though I suppose there still may have been a connection.)
Same sort of cloud that nailed TWA800?
You’d think part of the blackbox recording would be a video feed of the front of the aircraft, like a dash-cam. A camera, a bit of wire, and a hard drive big enough to hold several hours of 720p or so, would cost almost nothing compared to the rest of the plane.
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