CAL 744 in hard landing at DPS after turbulence

[marchino61]

10,000'.......or 200?

Macau Daily Times - 30 hurt in turbulence on China Airlines flight says airline

30 injured because of clear-air-turbulence - Taiwan News Online

Both report an "up and down motion" of 200' or 60m lasting about 10 seconds.

Seat belts lights on as crew had already detected turbulence on radar.

[buggaluggs]

I agree with Vonkluffen and ACMS as well, true CAT is not that common in that area, however large CB's and TS certainly are! Only takes a few moments of inattention and ' WHACK ' ( so I'm told ;-) ) . Be careful out there!

Buggs

[domani]

"Seat belts lights on as crew had already detected turbulence on radar"

can someone tell me how do you detect CAT on your radar?

[ACMS]

You can't see CLEAR air turb.

They must have seen water drop intensity colours and interpreted their radar accordingly.

[epc]

Why would any pilot cover up the windshield with newspaper or meal tray??? What's the point of doing this?

[BuzzBox]

According to newspaper reports CAL has just done it again on a flight from HKG to BKK. Several pax and crew injured. I find it hard to believe it was CAT. As others have said, it's far more likely they flew through the top of a CB.

[Sir Richard]

epc

The newspaper is there to stop rays from the sun damaging delicate skin and eyes

[epc]

covering up the window

I'm not a pilot. It seems a really unsafe thing to do to cover the windshields. Are the Boings and Airbuses and traffic control now so advanced now as to render the eyes irrelevant in flying?

[BuzzBox]

Absolutely not!!

[A37575]

Seat belts lights on as crew had already detected turbulence on radar

I believe the majority of these "unexpected" turbulence encounters are not real CAT at all but the crew have flown through a CB top. No way are they going to admit to inattention to the tilt or gain controls or they were failing to operate the radar correctly. Mysterious sudden CAT encounter covers a lot of sins and no one can prove otherwise.

[michaelmarsh]

Slats One, are you sure about the "scheduled service" flight home of the VC10? I flew with David (Flash) Philips, the Captain of the Andes upset flight, many times in later years on the DC10, and I believe he told me the aeroplane was patched up, but empty-ferried home to LGW where the true extent of the damage was then discovered.
Michael