FWIW
...At the Lufthansa flight 507 from Sao Paulo to Frankfurt everything seemed to run as planned. The flight was quiet, the stewardesses served the passengers, all was peaceful. Three hours after the start of this suddenly changed, because the jumbo in the midst of a severe tropical storm was advised.
The relaxed atmosphere on board was easy after the first shock apparently soon to panic. After 15 minutes, fought during the 350-ton jumbo with so great turbulence and air holes that passengers are not restrained to the floor and the ceiling were hurled.
A man had his head pushed so hard that he bled heavily. His wound had to be later by a doctor on board are sewn says "star".
Even beverage carts and luggage herumgeschleudert should have been.
"This is something I have on this route has never experienced. We had to claw regelrecht firmly, "the magazine quoted a passenger. Once the worst was over, that chaos prevailed in the cabin: people crying, leftover food and clothes, "everything just a single mash," said another passenger as "star".
How had it come? The pilot was apparently from the strong storms have been surprising. He was in the dark night, the tropical storm cells do not recognize them. Apparently the weather had no radar warning.
Lufthansa: turmoil not only on this route
"Stern" had spoken with passengers, with the horror of it had come, and the horror of the flight case made public today. Lufthansa again mentioned the incident until today - despite only two days later occurring crash disaster AF447 on the same route.
At Horror flight approached, a spokesman relativised Lufthansa Blick.ch from the incident. It had said the turbulence in flight and given a slightly injured. By "flying drinks trolley 'could, however, no question.
The air eddies were flying "of everyday life," said the spokesman continued. And: "Such turbulence is also not just about this area, but on quite a number of routes around the world."
The fact that the weather radar shows the storm does not have denied the Lufthansa spokesman also. "The radar worked and the storm was very well displayed. But that the turbulence in the storm would be so severe, it can also be a radar does not show. "
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from: Das Blick, 6 June 2009 (google translation)