The thing that always amazes me is how much of a beating these planes can take.
I’ve been in what I thought was severe turbulence many times and I hoped the plane would hold together.
But it was nothing like this.
There was an incident a few years back over the pacific where a plane just dropped a thousand feet in a few seconds, people plastered to the ceiling, then it caught air and stopped dropping and people slammed to the floor.
And yet the wings didn’t snap off even though the decel force would have been massive.
The thing that always amazes me is how much of a beating these planes can take.
I’ve been in what I thought was severe turbulence many times and I hoped the plane would hold together.
But it was nothing like this.
There was an incident a few years back over the pacific where a plane just dropped a thousand feet in a few seconds, people plastered to the ceiling, then it caught air and stopped dropping and people slammed to the floor.
And yet the wings didn’t snap off even though the decel force would have been massive.
Comforts me