Nervous flyer? Brace yourself.
, an airline accident lawyer and former airline captain from Los Angeles, tellsFlight attendants make up half of the turbulence-related injuries reported each year.fasten seat belt sign
has lost a bit of its effectiveness for passengers due to how often it can flick on during a flight."We keep the sign on longer after takeoff, even when the air is smooth, and will switch it on again at the slightest jolt or burble,""In some respects, this is another example of American overprotectiveness, but there are legitimate liability concerns.
But while cabin crew will still go about their duties even when the fasten seatbelt sign has relegated passengers to their seats, there's a good reason pilots will ask them to strap in when things are about to get particularly rough."Each year worldwide, about a hundred people—half of them flight attendants—are hurt by turbulence seriously enough to require medical attention, [with] head, neck, shoulder, and ankle injuries being the most common," Smith says.
"It's as simple as looking out the window," Smith says."Those burbling, cotton-ball cumulus clouds—particularly the anvil-topped variety that occur in conjunction with thunderstorms—are always a lumpy encounter. Flights over mountain ranges and through certain frontal boundaries will also get the cabin bells dinging, as will transiting a jet stream boundary."
Even at its worst, it's all but impossible for turbulence to create a serious emergency for a flight.
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