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What I find interesting is that during this flight a stewardess was thrown against an exit sign and knocked unconscious, things were flying around the cabin (everything that wasn't nailed down like food carts and people) and several other people got injured by flying things and people.
In my own experience though flying from Seoul to San Francisco wasn't the roughest as far as people flying I have been on (a flight from Seattle to Hawaii where the Stewardess hit the ceiling and came down on top of passengers was that one during the late 1980s). However, of the 11 hours of the flight from Seoul to San Francisco in late October, 9 of the 11 hours I was trying to stay in my seat even with a seat belt on and literally soup was flying out of my bowl, glasses were flying off my table in front of me, silverware was flying off the table and down into the seat beside me which was empty. And worse than that I was flying business class on Korean Air which is better than 1st class in most airlines and so the electrical mechanisms that operated the Lazy boy type of sleeping chair we sat in were fouled up by the silverware falling down into the seat by the shaking of the plane for 9 hours. I notified the stewardesses that I couldn't get the silverware out of the seat next to me. However, I don't know if anyone actually handled that or whether someone tried to use the seat and it shorted out and malfunctioned because of the silverware in the mechanism later.
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Dec 16, 2014 · Turbulence terror: American Airlines plane diverts to Tokyo after rough air injures 14 [Video] US bound plane hit severe turbulence One flight attendant ...Severe turbulence diverts flight from Seoul to Dallas; 5 hospitalized
Christmas travel is rough enough without Mother Nature trying to rearrange the airline cabin.
But for one American Airlines flight en route from Seoul, South Korea to Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, "Platers, glasses, even a beverage cart were thrown around the cabin," KXAS reports.
The turbulence got so bad the flight had to divert to an airport in Japan.
Officials told ABC the shaking injured at least 14 people, five so severely they had to be hospitalized.
The plane was reportedly stuck in the rough air for as long as 90 minutes. KTVT spoke with passenger Marc Stanley.
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"Not only had I not, the pilot - he's been flying more than 30 years - the copilots, the flight attendants for 35 years, everybody said they'd never, ever, ever seen anything like this," Stanley said. Weather Channel meteorologists say a storm developing over Japan was the likely culprit.
"Around these jet streaks, especially around the front and the backs of them; that's where you can get some of the most violent motion, especially while the storm is developing. You get a lot of rising air; you get a lot of sinking air."
American Airlines said the passengers would spend the night in local hotels before boarding a new flight bound for Dallas on Wednesday.
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Seoul to Dallas; 5... Also, this turbulence was not directly associated with any storm but a wind shear feature of the jet stream itself. So, there was no weather to be able to predict any of this. Just flying along fine and suddenly without warning complete chaos with people screaming from the worst and scariest roller coaster ride in their lives.
One way to avoid injury is to ALWAYS keep you seat belt fastened lightly in case something like this happens. You don't have to have it tight just loosely so you are comfortable. However, it will keep you (whenever you are seated and not traveling to and from the bathroom) in the vicinity of your seat rather than with your head slammed into a newly formed hole in the ceiling made by your head or unconscious from an extreme sudden updraft and unconscious from a blow to your head against the head of another passenger or wall of the plane or the hard top of a seat back or food tray.
Another thought I had was that since these jet stream unpredictable free air events seem to becoming more frequent (especially over the Pacific Ocean at altitude), some way to keep food carts from flying through the air might be helpful too, (as you can see in some of the pictures because a food cart is heavy enough if it hits the ceiling to actually kill several people when it comes back down on top of them. However, this is also true of a human body trying to walk down the aisle to the bathroom if an extreme down draft or up draft occurs without warning.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Severe turbulence injures passengers in flight from Seoul to Dallas
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