austhai

Curious ?
I am not a jet jockey so excuse my ignorance but wouldn't the modern weather radar that airliners are now equipped with alert the flight crew to weather ahead which is very likely to cause severe turbulence. I would think that with such indications the crew could have diverted around such weather or hold untill it dissapated.

Hope all crew and pax are OK.

HONG KONG: Five passengers and three cabin crew on a Cathay Pacific flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong were injured after the plane encountered severe turbulence.


All eight injured people were taken to hospital. As at 10pm Hong Kong time, all fve passengers and one crew member had been treated and discharged. One passenger was from Japan and four from Mainland China.

Two injured cabin crew had suffered "more serious injuries" according to a Cathay Pacific statement and have been kept in hospital overnight for observation and further treatment.

Cathay Pacific staff have been with the injured passengers at all times, helping to keep them in touch with friends and relatives.
Flight CX708 encountered the turbulence when the 'fasten seatbelt' sign had been illuminated about 12 minutes prior to landing.

"The Captain sent a message at 13.51 alerting Hong Kong about the incident and ambulances were waiting when the aircraft landed at Hong Kong International Airport at 14.12. Cathay Pacific staff accompanied the injured passengers and crew to a local hospital and are awaiting an update on the extent of the injuries sustained," the airline said in an earlier statement.
"Cathay Pacific regrets the incident and will do everything possible to provide assistance to the affected passengers and staff."
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A330-300 with 241 passengers and 12 crew aboard.

Jizzmonkey

and that's where you should've left it.................................

bell1st

Weather radar can only "see" moisture, so will not detect conditions that lead to "clear air" turbulance or turbulance from another aircraft (jet-wash).

Sir Richard

Very slow news....it happened 27th June !

broadband circuit

Clearly this thread was started by either a journalist, or an ambulance chasing lawyer.

Let's all do ourselves a favour, and not give these scum sucking bottom dwellers any ammunition to attack our profession.

IMASTAR

I am none of what you accused me of. Especially as quoted below and I resent your remarks.
Are you so up yourself that you can make assumpions like that.
Or are you so unprofessional that you can't comment on a simple question and not be paranoid that someone is out to get you.
Your language does not go with the profession you CLAIM to be a part of but does give an indication of your mentality and lack of class.
You sir are a gutter dweller.


QUOTE: scum sucking bottom dwellers any ammunition to attack our profession.

Fac6

Enough said!

broadband circuit

Funny thing - the original post was by "austhai", but the rebuttal was by "IMASTAR"

Glass Half Empty

Simple really,

austhai = twa*t = imastar

goldfish64

Give him a break - he was just asking a question!!

austhai

Thanks for your reply.

The question was put to me by some of my cabin crew trainees.
Mainly they were asking about advanced warning of turbulence for cabin crew because in this incident some cabin crew were badly injured.

Having read your reply we can assume that the flight crew cannot always give advanced warning of turbulence and therefore give cabin crew the chance to strap in.

I thought this was the case with CAT but thought that in thunder storm conditions turbulence can be reasonably predicted.

P.S. Sorry to the others, didn't realise the term "Jet Jockey" was such a touchy subject. Thought it was common term worldwide. Meant no offence.
In futire will use the term " Pilots of fixed wing aircraft powered by gas turbine engines".

cxhk

those who call others a "twa*t" are probably one themselves

yokebearer

You guys have outdone yourselves as usual!

Wonder which of you I will fly with next.....

austhai

Agree yokebearer....
Weird bunch indeed.

I still don't understand the fuss about the term jet jockey ???

What about the term self loading freight ? Is that acceptable ?

Anyhow seams strange to me I just simply asked quite a simple question and got the sh....t blasted out of me.

Will know in future not to bother to ask this bunch their too far of up themselves.

Loiter1

I now remember why I stopped reading PPRuNe. It'll take another 3 months for me to forget.