I’ve never seen anything quite like this happen before. There have been numerous dangerous incidents of turbulence, where passengers have been thrown about the cabin and various belongings have gotten tossed around as well. Sometimes people are injured, and even badly so.
But on Air Europa’s Madrid to Montevideo, Uruguay flight 45 on Sunday the Boeing 787-9 was at cruising altitude above the Atlantic Ocean when it was tossed about in turbulence in a way that caused a passenger to become lodged in an overhead bin. Video from inside the cabin shows him being helped out once turbulence had passed.
Air Europa Boeing 787-9 (EC-MTI, built 2018) safely diverted to Natal-Intl AP(SBSG), Brazil after flight #UX45 from Madrid to Montevideo, Uruguay encountered severe turbulence during cruise flight at 36000 ft. leaving at least 30 persons injured and aircraft interior damaged.… pic.twitter.com/d51i9HFRJu
— JACDEC (@JacdecNew) July 1, 2024
Yet another incident challenging the aviation safety, that demands definitive solutions. Below are the list and links of 15 recent Turbulence events, as we observe more such phenomenon regularly and globally.
July 01, 2024 : Turbulence that hit an Air Europa Boeing 787-9… https://t.co/xc9Ux0DUnm pic.twitter.com/CUIA7SwrPu
— FL360aero (@fl360aero) July 1, 2024
The flight diverted to Natal, Brazil where about thirty out of 345 people on board were treated for a variety of (non-critical) injuries. The airline then sent another Boeing 787 to pick up passengers.
This was bad turbulence. Seats were even broken. But how on earth was the man lodged inside an overhead bin? You can see his feet sticking out of the bin. He didn’t just fly up and hit the ceiling. The angle must have somehow been perfect. Unfortunately we only have video from after he wound up inside of there. There’s no Zapruder film showing how he wound up there in the first place.
Insane, and I hope most people were wearing their belts when seated or it could have been even worse. If these sort of events are indeed becoming both more regular and widespread rather than just better reported then the likely culprit is climate change. This would be unexpected but is understandable additional damage from an increasingly less stable atmosphere. And if anyone disagrees that this is occurring, just ask the people in Grenada and St. Vincent. Hurricanes are always with us, but not like they’ve been trending lately. CO2 levels have gone up almost 50% since I was born, and all that trapped heat has to go someplace.
At least he didn’t have a service dog which threw up after eating the catered meal .
Climate change. Haha yeah okay “doc”. I bet you still wear a mask while driving in your car alone.
@drrichard …. Ah yes , the turbulence is due to “climate change” .
And Brandon’s lifelong Vacuity is due to sunshine and fresh breezes .
Two examples of ‘non sequitur’… poor reasoning .
People are quick to blame climate change. Why not place the blame on significantly more planes flying than in past decades which raises the chances of these events by shear numbers and chance. Why not blame airlines for seeking greater fuel efficiencies by flying optimized routes that get closer to the strongest areas of jetstream activity where strong turbulence is most likely to occur.
Airlines want you to blame climate change so they dont have to adjust their schedule and routes flown.
Momentum is the reason that when the airplane comes down rapidly it hits people who are not belted in. The people not belted in did not change their course of flight when the airplane did. When people are in an airplane in the air, they are always flying.
He wasn’t lodged in the ceiling! He was just catching some sleep in the overhead bin. This occasionally happens on overseas flights as passengers try to spread out more.
I honestly would find this very hard to believe indeed
I’ve witnessed unprecedented turbulence incidents where passengers and belongings were violently tossed, resulting in injuries, some severe.
Could it be possible that the passenger who wound up in the overhead bin had risen from his seat and opened the bin to remove something? That is a simpler explanation than that he had stretched out in the bin (which sounds like a poor attempt at being funny) Occam’s Razor holds that the simpler explanation is the better one, so I’ll hold to mine until a better one comes along.
he flew up, back and to the left! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz3PqA2Fmc&ab_channel=Amir%C5%A0abanovi%C4%87
If the airplane is diving fast enough and I was out of my seat and being held at the top of the cabin, I would roll into the empty overhead bin too, to keep from being dropped to the floor or on the seat tops when the airplane pulled out of the dive.