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Turbulence on Singapore to London flight Sunday on Singapore Airlines A380, a few minor injuries.
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This picture posted by a Mr Cross
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Hope the beefy bloke salvaged something, the stewardess looks as if she is pondering her choice of career.
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This picture posted by a Mr Cross
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Hope the beefy bloke salvaged something, the stewardess looks as if she is pondering her choice of career.
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I remember once encountering a savage bit of turbulance on an SQ jumbo en-route from Manchester to Changi back in 1999. I travel a lot and this WAS savage, believe me.
I was with a mate who'd never flown before and was a bit nervy about it before boarding. Anyway, my abiding memory of that flight was a load of young students screaming their lungs out and me turning to my pal imagining him to be terrified. He was laughing away loving every minute!
The skipper was a cheeky Indian chap who piped up after we'd cleared the weather with "sorry about those little bumps back there." A master of the understatement.
I was with a mate who'd never flown before and was a bit nervy about it before boarding. Anyway, my abiding memory of that flight was a load of young students screaming their lungs out and me turning to my pal imagining him to be terrified. He was laughing away loving every minute!
The skipper was a cheeky Indian chap who piped up after we'd cleared the weather with "sorry about those little bumps back there." A master of the understatement.
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Hit some bumpy weather on a Comet once. I hit my head on the ceiling and one of the other girls down the back ended up tangled in the webbing across the dome freight opening. There was stuff everywhere. Ah, good times!
Hit sudden turbulence over The Rockies once, just as the drinks had been served. Ahead of me a wine glass (fortunately plastic) described a parabola from a tray up towards the ceiling and back down again having travelled about 3 seats forward. The red wine contents, having a different specific gravity, described a different parabola, and steadily left the glass, attained a slightly higher altitude, and then came down in a single mass all across some poor guy about two seats further forward again. It was just like something you see in a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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Britain's old-favourite, the Daily Mail, has finally caught up with this story today - no doubt alongside their breaking news exclusive that the Titanic has sunk.
Surprisingly measured reporting this time though - no orphanages under-threat it seems. They did manage to sneak it the old fail-safe of using a picture of a different aircraft though....
Singapore Airlines passengers left surrounded by chaotic in-flight mess after turbulence hit jet during dinner | Mail Online
Surprisingly measured reporting this time though - no orphanages under-threat it seems. They did manage to sneak it the old fail-safe of using a picture of a different aircraft though....
Singapore Airlines passengers left surrounded by chaotic in-flight mess after turbulence hit jet during dinner | Mail Online
It sure looks like an A380 to me, in the Mail article
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Sudden lack of Humour here
Given the violence of turbulence encountered: what recording of the effects of the events is recorded on the aircraft's turbulence/fatigue life recording systems ?
Well done to everyone involved no signs of screaming & panic among the passengers and cabin crew - Be very aware of accounts like this.
I was on a BAC 1-11 (400 series) that was the subject of very bad windshere; at Aldergrove many moons ago - I broke a tooth in seat 3C (and never claimed a penny) - Going to a Funeral !
Well done to everyone involved no signs of screaming & panic among the passengers and cabin crew - Be very aware of accounts like this.
I was on a BAC 1-11 (400 series) that was the subject of very bad windshere; at Aldergrove many moons ago - I broke a tooth in seat 3C (and never claimed a penny) - Going to a Funeral !
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Surprisingly measured reporting this time though - no orphanages under-threat it seems. They did manage to sneak it the old fail-safe of using a picture of a different aircraft though....
Paxing All Over The World
Indeed t1grm, the good Doctor was really 'specific' in his prognostication to cover himself for most eventualities ... 
Dr Paul Williams from the University of Reading and the University of East Anglia’s Dr Manoj Joshi said the average strength of turbulence will also increase, by between 10 and 40 per cent.
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SQ308 en route from SIN to LHR 28 May
Well glad to see their modifications to wing torsional flexibility and airflow pressure distribution certainly held it all together.
Accident: Singapore A388 enroute on May 26th 2013, clear air turbulence
Accident: Singapore A388 enroute on May 26th 2013, clear air turbulence
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Singapore Airlines breakfast served: on the ceiling
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Old news
So after almost a week since it happend, you still need to post a new thread without searching for an existing one, because you think you are the only one smart enough to read the news?
328 breakfasts on the floor
A lot has beed said about it already...
328 breakfasts on the floor
A lot has beed said about it already...
