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It doesn't appear to have been reported in Al Jazeera but the pilot did in fact report a total loss of instrumentation for a few seconds. That being said, no I
by zettabomb 3y ago
It doesn't appear to have been reported in Al Jazeera but the pilot did in fact report a total loss of instrumentation for a few seconds. That being said, no I would not say a sudden drop of a few hundred feet, both preceeded and succeeded by steady and level flight, sounds like a "classic inflight turbulence encounter". That would be quite unusual.
- fransje26 3y agoNo, wind shear exists. And +/-30 meter changes are well within the realms of wind shear drafts.
- zettabomb 3y agoNever said it didn't. I'm saying that based on the description, the degree of disturbance is far outside of the realm of what I would consider common. This is regardless of cause.
- fransje26 3y agoAh, I see where the misunderstanding came from. In my "this reads like a fairly classic inflight turbulence encounter" "classic" was not meant to say it was something necessarily common, but something that is well understood happens, with a high enough probability of being encountered in the lifetime of an airframe. Case-in-point being the Emirates flight from December, with similar ceiling damage, and similar passengers/crew injuries.