Maybe you need the standing "seats" some airlines have considered.
Posted on 12/18/2022 5:29:00 PM PST by algore
At least 36 people have been injured - with some knocked unconscious - in a 'mass emergency' onboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Arizona after it encountered severe turbulence.
Passengers were nearing the end of their seven hour flight from Phoenix to Honolulu on Sunday morning when anyone who wasn't wearing their seatbelt was thrown out of their seats.
It's believed 11 people were seriously hurt, including several children and a 14-month-old baby.
Those hurt onboard include both passengers and flight attendants working on Flight 35. They sustained a variety of injuries, including serious head injuries, cuts and bruises when they crashed into the plane's ceiling panels and overhead bins.
It has also been reported that some passengers were knocked unconscious during the ordeal - and one person suffered a broken neck due to the severity of the turbulence.
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I was on the same flight (HA 35) three years ago. Smooth as butter. This particular flight must have caught the tail end of a storm system that passed through the area a few days ago.
Walking during flight is helpful in preventing DVT.
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>Landing in Denver in the afternoons can get scary bumpy.
Yessiree. Fly the little hop from Colorado Springs to Denver and experience the full range of motion your stomach can go through.
Why are you flying anywhere if you feel pressured to stand up as much as possible? Or was this humor that I just plum overlooked? I can’t imagine any flight attendant letting a customer remain standing w/o a fight. They are in control up there.
Checked Honolulu weather. There is a severe “High Wind Warning” across all the islands - ripe conditions for an event like this. The plane must have flown straight into a downdraft.
That seems like sound advice. I will try to remember that.
I was on a flight from Barcelona to New York JFK about 15 years ago when we hit severe turbulence almost halfway between the coast of Portugal and Cape May, NJ—in other words, over the middle of the north Atlantic ocean. It was pretty scary.
Another area where severe turbulence happens often, like almost every day, is the front range of the Rockies, near Denver and Colorado Springs. Flights from the east to the Bay Area airports always seem to hit this.
Maybe you need the standing "seats" some airlines have considered.
Walking during in-flight turbulence is helpful in inducing cranial contusions.
I never take my seatbelt off.
How do you get off the plane?
Yup!
I hear you on that. Try those compression socks. A man I know from the 160th SOAR spends a LOT of time sitting in a helo. He swears by ‘em for long flights.
Those gray people are like 5 feet tall.
No,you’re right. I failed to mention that they tased me a half dozen times. Those Korean gals don’t fool around!
Lol!
Yup. I have been in some pretty gnarly turbulence in the past.
"10 hours on my feet in both directions"
A few years ago I was bumped up to Business Class on a flight from Boston to Dubai...about 13 hours. I even found *that* flight painful.Spending that many hours in a metal tube is not something I enjoy.
I think Tim Russert died from blood clots in his legs after flying to and from Rome.
I could also be having a false memory.
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