#turbulence

#turbulence

For anxious travellers everywhere, the gelatine dessert might just be the surprisingly sweet solution to surviving turbulence. The clip, posted by content creator Anna Paul, who has nearly eight million followers across her platforms, became a global sensation. Racking up more than 42 million views, Anna demonstrates a tip she claims to have learnt from a pilot. Using a pot of jelly to represent the air and a scrunched-up napkin as the plane,

Two passengers were rushed to the hospital with turbulence-induced injuries after their flight from Colorado to Texas quickly descended more than 4,000 feet in less than a minute. The plane, initially heading from Aspen, Colorado to Houston, Texas on Thursday, was forced to land in Austin due to severe turbulence that resulted in at least one of the aforementioned passengers bonking their head on the ceiling. HE HIT THE CEILING': Two passengers were seriously hurt when a SkyWest flight from Colorado to Houston hit severe turbulence.

Turbulence can appear suddenly and isn't always detected by onboard radar systems, so there may not be time for the pilots to put on the seatbelt sign.