Back in March, Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves McConaughey were traveling on a Lufthansa flight to Germany that hit severe turbulence and dropped 4,000 feet before it made an emergency landing near Washington, DC.
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In an Instagram post, she shared a video of food scattered in the cabin and wrote: “On Flight last night, plane dropped almost 4,000 feet, 7 people went to hospital, Everything was flying everywhere.” The carrier apologized for the inconvenience and rebooked passengers onto other flights.
The crew on the Lufthansa flight that almost dropped 4,000 feet in severe turbulence asked passengers to delete photos and videos of the incident, according to a report. The flight had to make an emergency landing at Washington, DC's Dulles Airport.
Turbulence, associated with thunderstorms, can be extremely hazardous, having the potential to cause overstressing of the aircraft or loss of control. Thunderstorm vertical currents may be strong enough to displace an aircraft up or down vertically as much as 2000 to 6000 feet.
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A rough estimate of the probability of an airplane going down due to an emergency is about 1 in 11 million, meaning it would take us quite a few lifetimes before actually experiencing a plane crash. That's a whopping 0.00001% chance that something will go terribly wrong on your flight.
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While pilots can't actually see turbulence, they often know what is coming up, thanks to reports from other planes, weather reports, and radar equipment. However, clear air turbulence (severe turbulence occurring in cloudless areas) can sometimes catch pilots off guard.
Turbulence is a sudden and sometimes violent shift in airflow. Those irregular motions in the atmosphere create air currents that can cause passengers on an airplane to experience annoying bumps during a flight, or it can be severe enough to throw an airplane out of control. (The pilots) aren't scared at all.
Severe turbulence can cause a plane to drop so suddenly that pilots temporarily lose control. But, again, that's not enough to crash the plane. That's not to say it's never happened.