Has somebody heard off a heveay turbulance accident near Lima? There were 44 persons who had heavy injuries
Turbulence incident near Lima
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Turbulence incident near Lima
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This incident happened onboard of a plane enroute from Madrid to Lima, Peru. Above the Amazone the plane was hitted by heavy turbelence. There were 44 injuries. The most victims have slices, bruises, and injuries on their head. 23 passengers needed after the landing to the hospital. under the victims there were a few Dutchpeople and a Belgian. The aircraft was an Airbus A340-300 of Iberia, wit 200 passengers onboard
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I always keep my seatbelt fastened out of habit now. Sometimes you forget it is fastened when you try to stand up! I have read about lives being saved in accidents (notably the Aloha 737 which lost part of its roof) because passengers have had their seatbelts fastened.
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sab319 - an aircraft can lose its roof due to metal fatigue caused by the regular pressure up and down in an aircraft as it has an entire flight. The Aloha aircraft were used on short inter-island hops and so had a high utilisation and alot of pressure ups and downs. This can cause the fuselage to weaken. Best known case of this was the Comet, it had three crashes in the 1950s due to metal fatigue, and by analysing the wreckage of the Comet that was how the metal fatigue problem was first documented in jet airliners. The fuselage was shown to weaken, in the roof and the corner of the windows, after so many cycles of pressurisation and depressurisation you would get in a normal flight.
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Believe me that crossing the Amazone is always a bumpy part of the flight. Especially with IB since they come into South America on the Surinam side and cross all the Amazone from East to West very bumpy. KLM is coming into South America from the North and cross the Amazone from North to South-West, this always gives a lot less turbulence but sometimes you are happy you kept your seatbelt on and believe me I know this flight since I did it something like 14 times already
ps. See my topic in airline experiences from last year https://www.aviation24.be/postt978.html
Greetz,
Erwin
ps. See my topic in airline experiences from last year https://www.aviation24.be/postt978.html
Greetz,
Erwin
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