Passengers on an Air Canada flight on Friday experienced turbulence so severe that their meals flew off the tables onto trays into the air, making the plane’s cabin look like the scene of a mid-air food fight.
According to one reddit post by Morrell Andrews, A few hours into the flight from Vancouver to Singapore, flight AC19 “hit some big bumps and everything went airborne (including a few people!).” Andrews said no one was injured, but his photos show food in the aisle and splashed across the ceiling of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Air Canada told CBS News that the flight experienced “some turbulence” about three hours after it left Vancouver on October 11. The airline confirmed that none of the passengers or crew were injured and the flight continued as planned to Singapore.
On the Reddit thread, another passenger said they were “terrified” and had “never had turbulence like this before.”
“It felt like one of those roller coasters where you are weightless for a few seconds,” said another poster on the forum, adding that they had to pick food out of their hair. “The hut was full of floating food! Coffee dripped on me from the ceiling and then picked rice out of my hair.”
Several serious turbulence incidents have made headlines in recent years, including in May when Singapore Airlines said a flight from Bangkok, Thailand “faced with sudden extreme turbulenceon the way to London’s Heathrow Airport. One man died of a heart attack and dozens were injured.
Data from online flight tracking company FlightAware showed that the Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 fell about 6,000 feet in just about five minutes during the incident. Thunderstorms were reported in the area.
In September 2023, a Jet Blue flight from Ecuador to Fort Lauderdale experienced severe turbulence. sending eight passengers to hospital.
“Severe weather increases the risk of turbulence, and due to climate change, these types of incidents will only continue to increase,” said Taylor Garland, spokesperson for the Association of Flight Attendants. told CBS News in 2022.
A phenomenon known as clear-air turbulence – which cannot be detected by radar – is increasing, along with the more typical, severe weather-related bumps in the sky.
As the jet stream shifts and carbon dioxide emissions By making the planet’s air warmer, there is more wind shear at the altitudes where commercial planes typically fly. One study from 2023 found that moderate open-air turbulence increased by 37% between 1979 and 2020. Researchers found that severe open-air turbulence had increased by 55% over the same period on one of the world’s most popular travel routes, over the North Atlantic Ocean.
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