A flight from Madrid to Uruguay forced to make an emergency landing after encountering turbulence has ‘landed normally,’ according to Spanish airline Air Europa.
These all tend to be from people not wearing their seatbelts so being hurled neck-first into the ceiling when the plane is deflected downward, although some people with weaker necks can bang their heads from side to side too. This can also happen if the TCAS triggers - if two planes are headed toward each other it tie-breaks so one plane is advised to dive while another is advised to climb. The dives can be quite severe and people always get injured in them. You really do hurtle at the ceiling at incredible speed.
I wonder how often people are collateral damage in these situations because ain’t no one going to tell Uncle Jim Bob to wear a seat belt so he became a projectile.
These all tend to be from people not wearing their seatbelts so being hurled neck-first into the ceiling when the plane is deflected downward, although some people with weaker necks can bang their heads from side to side too. This can also happen if the TCAS triggers - if two planes are headed toward each other it tie-breaks so one plane is advised to dive while another is advised to climb. The dives can be quite severe and people always get injured in them. You really do hurtle at the ceiling at incredible speed.
I wonder how often people are collateral damage in these situations because ain’t no one going to tell Uncle Jim Bob to wear a seat belt so he became a projectile.