Fasten your seat belt – air turbulence is on the rise.
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Fasten your seat belt – air turbulence is on the rise.
“It is predicted there will be more and more incidents of severe clear-air turbulence, which typically comes out of the blue with no warning, occurring in the near future as climate change takes its effect in the stratosphere,” Dr Paul Williams, a Royal Society research fellow at Reading University, said last week. “There has already been a steady rise in incidents of severe turbulence affecting flights over the past few decades. Globally, turbulence causes dozens of fatalities a year on small private planes and hundreds of injuries to passengers in big jets. And as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere keep on rising, so will the numbers of incidents.”
Williams said that at heights of around 10 to 12km (6-7 miles), a typical cruising altitude for a modern passenger jet plane, temperature changes caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have the effect of making different layers of airflow move at increased speeds relative to each other. When this unstable airflow produces clear-air turbulence – and there are no visual clues to give a pilot warning of what lies ahead – then the aircraft is thrown about with considerable force. “If the effect is severe, it will overcome the force of gravity and fling people out of their seats. Turbulence of this severity is being encountered by planes thousands of times a year now,” Williams added.
As to actions that should be taken, Williams is clear. “Always keep your seat belt fastened...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... d-airlines
Williams said that at heights of around 10 to 12km (6-7 miles), a typical cruising altitude for a modern passenger jet plane, temperature changes caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have the effect of making different layers of airflow move at increased speeds relative to each other. When this unstable airflow produces clear-air turbulence – and there are no visual clues to give a pilot warning of what lies ahead – then the aircraft is thrown about with considerable force. “If the effect is severe, it will overcome the force of gravity and fling people out of their seats. Turbulence of this severity is being encountered by planes thousands of times a year now,” Williams added.
As to actions that should be taken, Williams is clear. “Always keep your seat belt fastened...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... d-airlines
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Re: Fasten your seat belt – air turbulence is on the rise.
I've noticed a couple of times the passengers around me on flights in/out of Cambodia don't bother putting their seat belts at any stage of the flight... and the flight attendants (who I am pretty sure are supposed to enforce it for takeoff/landing) don't bother to even check, let alone tell them to buckle up.
You must walk in traffic to cross the road - Cambodian proverb
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