http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/tra...11382d3a138f8b
This was published today but it seems a week old . News Corp tend to sensationalize things a bit, but it sounds like a flight you would rather not have had.
There is the article and a number of photos from inside the plane
Wombat : an Australian marsupial that eats,roots and leaves
if the idiot had kept his seat belt on this wouldnt have happened. This sort if thing happens on amy airline. please move on, nothing to see. Lonelywombatty...u r the weakest link. Fail!!
Surfcrest (April 16th, 2016)
I guess all we have to do is look at your record,even the last few weeks
http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/member...29-latintopxxx
Wombat : an Australian marsupial that eats,roots and leaves
My initial reaction is, a) even without a seatbelt that must have been one hell of a turbulent flight to crack you head against the ceiling of the plane, and b) what the fuck were the pilots thinking? They can see how turbulent it is up ahead, and they decided to just fly right through it? We've all been on flights where the pilot comes on and says, "please take your seats, and buckle in, because we'll be experiencing some turbulence for the next approximately 30 minutes", so it's not like the turbulence was an unexpected surprise.
Your ignorance of real life is breathtaking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulenceOriginally Posted by cdnmatt
And your accomplishment of being an asshole is outstanding. Go figure, eh?
Just to reinforce what has been said by some because most of us fly from time to time - no-one and no on-board system can see all clear-air turbulence. It has absolutely nothing to do with the more normal forms of turbulence that can be seen on weather radar and with the naked eye, the type which immediately has the captain turning on the seat belt sign. It actually happens a lot, much more than is reported in the media, but usually it is relatively mild. When it is bad, pilots who experience it usually relay the information immediately to their ground controllers so they can quickly warn all aircraft flying behind them at the same altitude.
The fact is that almost every pilot on every airline is instructed to remind passengers to keep seat belts loosely fastened even when the seat belt signs are off. Yet around the world there are millions of new passengers every year who fly for the first time. Many will not even listen to announcements. Some announcements may not be in their language. Some aircraft may have the volume of announcements set too low even to be heard (that has happened to me on far more flights than should be the case). In flight, if the sign has been on for more than a few minutes there will always be someone who just has to go to the washroom.
Then there are the poor flight attendants. Violent CAT mostly happens suddenly and unexpectedly, as with hitting what feels like a large air pocket and the aircraft can quite literally fall several hundred feet! Mostly they will be walking around the cabin doing their duties. They are the ones most likely to get hurt - and what happens to the meal and drinks trolleys can cause major accidents. But if you are a passenger, you are a fool if you sit there with your seat belt just dangling by your sides waiting for the sign to tell you to buckle up.
Last edited by fountainhall; April 16th, 2016 at 11:54.
anonone (April 23rd, 2016), cdnmatt (April 16th, 2016), christianpfc (April 17th, 2016), llz (April 17th, 2016)
Desperately naive.....
I'd have thought the twatilly-named Sarah-Jayne (who has obviously carried on the family upper-class-twit tradition by ridiculously calling her daughter AsiaLily) would have had a little more education at her fee-paying school than to write "most scariest" in her "note" to hubby.
Having said that, anybody who would say a fellow passenger "looked like an Indian" is obviously from the upper echelons of English society (like our pig-molesting Prime Minister) so perhaps thats about par for the course.
Who the fuck sends "notes" these days anyway - the last one I can think of started "Dear Neville" and ended "Yours, Adolf" - and we all know how that worked out.
Thank you fountainhill for being a gentleman, and explaining CAT. I've honestly never heard of it before, but have been on hundreds of flights, and hell, one that was even struck by lightening. Anyway, thank you again.
Nonetheless, something still doesn't add up. He "bounced off the roof of the plane" according to the article, so that's a good 4 to 5 feet, correct? These commercial airliners aren't technically capable of doing a barrel roll, because they will split into two. So the turbulence was so bad, someone was launched 5 feet upwards and cracked their head on the ceiling so hard they spilt blood all over the place?
Why do I think we're not being told the true story?
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