Injured on a aeroplane

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Few years back my Grandparents were flying out of SYD bound for LAX with UAL on a 744. They experienced very severe CAT and hit a typhoon over the pacific. People were injured, although the aircraft managed to land safely in Los Angeles.

Regards

Ben

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yeah i remember a 747 from Aussieland to UK had to make a emerg landing in Singapore a few years bak

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The worst part of turbulence in the world is known to be over the Hindukush mountains, that is Afghanistan, Tajakistan etc. Worst case was a Aeroflot Il 62, experienced so much turbulence that 17 people fainted…it made an emergency landing at Tashkent!

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This very UA 747 was the same one involved in the ‘clear air’ turbulance incident on Wednesday May 1. The jet fell suddenly for a few seconds apparenlty. Back luck plane if you ask me. And yes quite a few people were injured in the turbulance incident, one at least seriously.

Regards, Glenn.

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Apparently the UA 747 in question had to turn back to Auckland and make another emergancy landing because it had malfunctioning flaps and it was loosing air pressure.

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This is a well know problem flying over south pacific.
Those turbulences are very powerful indeed.
Too many people are goofing off in the plane without there seat belt properly fasten and this kind of accident is unfortunately not that rare.

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Don’t think it was a CO 747 as they don’t operate that type anymore.It was a United 747 hit by bad turbulance.Link to CNN is below:
http://cnn.looksmart.com/og/pr=FastSitesCustom;tc=;pc=15;ro=2;rc=1000;p…|http://cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/05/01/nz.turbulence.ap/index.h…