Air Canada’s flight 19 from Vancouver to Singapore hit significant turbulence a couple of hours into the flight. It came as a surprise, and “everything went flying (including a few people!)”
There were no reported injuries, and the flight continued to its destination. Food and beverage wound up in the aisles – and on the ceiling of the aircraft.
Aftermath of major turbulence on AC19 today
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In the aftermath of the incident,
The crew came through with garbage bags and trolleys to clean as much as possible. Everyone helped out and it was kind of sweet to see [passengers and flight attendants] taking care of each other. Somehow they righted a trolley that was on its side in the rear galley (those things are heavy)
The turbulence, which lasted several minutes, naturally caused drink spills. Once it was over crew “handed out extra tablecloths from [business class] for those who were sitting in wet seats back in economy.”
We’ve seen a number of severe turbulence incidents recently like Korean Air’s Mongolia flight, Air Europa from Madrid to Montevideo, the Singapore Airlines flight that diverted to Bangkok, United’s Tel Aviv – Newark and Emirates from Perth to Dubai.
When the seat belt sign is on, wear your seat belt. When the seat belt sign is off, but you’re in your seat wear your seat belt.
So much plastic.
Assuming that this is the AC19 that took off after midnight on Friday, 11 October 2024, FlightAware has some interesting information. FlightAware shows the airplane flying at 26,000 feet for a while before the two hour mark from takeoff. This would be when the first food service was being done. After that the airplane is at a more normal 34,000 feet. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. As best I know flying at 34,000 feet is more efficient and usually has less turbulence.
“We’ve seen a number of incidents of severe turbulence recently.”
True, but we’ve seen them not because there is more turbulence in the atmosphere, but because there are vastly more people in the air with video cameras to record them, vastly more mechanisms for people to watch them, and many more miles flown than in the past. This is a sociological phenomenon and not a climate phenomenon.