SIXTEEN people were hurt, two of them seriously, when a KLM passenger jet hit turbulence soon after take-off from a western Japan airport today, a report said.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight 867, bound for Amsterdam, flew into turbulence shortly after it departed from Kansai airport near Osaka and was forced to turn back, the airline said.
The airline and local officials said they did not have immediate information on any injuries.
But Kyodo News, quoting firefighters, said 16 people were hurt, two of them seriously.
The plane returned to Kansai airport after the incident, the Dutch airline said.
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I just saw the headline on the CNN website.
Read the article, and the 1st thing I thought is how in the world did the fly continue all the way to KIX with over 10hrs of flight time.
It turns out from reading what's been posted here that it's not clear whether the incident occured East or West bound and close to departure, arrival, or return to the home base.
People, and worst, crews, get accustomed to turbulence and when there's a warning they don't necessarily take it seriously. Heavy turbulence (encountered once and last on a BA 744 HKG-LHR in '97) is not a joke.
Read the article, and the 1st thing I thought is how in the world did the fly continue all the way to KIX with over 10hrs of flight time.
It turns out from reading what's been posted here that it's not clear whether the incident occured East or West bound and close to departure, arrival, or return to the home base.
People, and worst, crews, get accustomed to turbulence and when there's a warning they don't necessarily take it seriously. Heavy turbulence (encountered once and last on a BA 744 HKG-LHR in '97) is not a joke.
Indeed it happens more often on some routes than others.adrien wrote:Does it happens often?(I mean heavy turbulences during flights)How many feet a plane can lose during turbulences?
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One of the european routes, with a bad reputation was (is) over the Carpathian Mountains en route to Istanbul.
I remember hitting turbulence over there, and going down a couple of thousand feet in B737.
The route to Tokyo via Anchorage was also prone to turbulence when you hit a cold front or left it.
This KLM flight might have hit also a front. If I remember well, the weather was quite warm ovr Northern Europe, and once nearing the Urals the temperature might have changed suddenly
Also during monsoon season, in the triangle CMB-HKT-CCU-CMB
Entering and leaving the Saharian area in the centre can also give turbulence.
One thing I can tell, is that you'll never fly without a fastened seatbelt, once you hit real heavy turbulence. A wake up in heavy turbulence can be (is) really nightmarish. (Talking from experience)
Euh, and how could I have forgotten an horrible flight from Antananarivo-Ivato to NBO Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Airport in the old and run off 747 of Air Madgascar in the late '90. Not only did we hit turbulence, met stormy weather, it felt like we hit the Kilimanjaro, the landing @ NBO could have served as a 747 shot down in NBO for a movie, anyway the aircraft was losing piece all over, and leaking liquids from all sides. All the animal of Nairobi National Park must probably also have been traumatised.... as were some passengers.
