[George from New England]

Was there a dangling wrapper in the air too with the words ACME on the label ?

[EEGator]

That’s beyond my knowledge set.

[usurper]

“severely convectively induced turbulence,”

Hummm, induced by what??

[Candor7]

ITS GLOBUL SCHWARMING!

Or the ghost of Captain Cook!

[Ezekiel]

a “cloud shot up vertically (like a smoke plume) in front of the airplane in a matter of seconds

Someone flipped the switch on Mega Maid?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

CAT - Clear Air Turbulence. It happens.

[ViLaLuz]

Someone tried to shoot the plane down?

[TermLimits4All]

This alien encounter will be explained as CAT, clear air turbulence 😁.

[glorgau]

40 minutes from landing - time enough to go stand in line for that last trip to the bathroom.

[V_TWIN]

“left more than two dozen people injured and damaged the aircraft last month...”

Not to mention all the underwear that had to be disposed of 😏

[BradyLS]

Is there video of the plume?

[Vaquero]

Read ‘Airframe’. By Michael Crichton. A good read. (And also read his ‘ State of Fear’. A scary read about the bogus political creation of anthropomorphic global warming as a means of controlling the populace)

[Clutch Martin]

It’s that pesky “Atmospheric River” again. Not surprisingly that particular term is not recognized by NWS/NOAA, but persists by the non-meteorological trained broadcast weather hacks.

To be fair there is a smattering of bonafide meteorological graduates scattered about...

[martin_fierro]

Obligatory graphic.

[edh]

Swamp gas.

[moovova]

Shades of TWA Flight 800. Apparently, the Navy missed this time. At least nobody is pulling airplane pieces out of the water.

[logi_cal869]

Preliminary NTSB report.

We won’t know anything more until the final report (1-2 years).

I expect ‘swamp gas’. /s

[ThePatriotsFlag]

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!

[Chode]

comment should be on the recorder then...

[Svartalfiar]

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.