Two Virgin Australia flight attendants have been taken to hospital one of which has a broken leg while flying through heavy turbulence. Flight VA233 from Melbourne to Adelaide was in decent to Adelaide Airport when the turbulence struck. The flight operated by a Boeing 737-800 aircraft departed Melbourne at 4:35 local time on Wednesday with the 1hr and 5min flight to the South Australian capital in which it safely arrived into at 5:13 local time, the turbulence was unexpected, no passengers were injured and the aircraft (VH-VUE) which was involved in the incident was inspected by engineers and returned to service today on VA427 from Adelaide to Sydney
Just bringing your attention for this part of the article :
According to a new study, severe turbulence is expected to triple due to climate change.
The study done by University of Reading researcher Dr Paul Williams is the first to examine the impact of climate change on turbulence.
Although technology that allows aircraft to detect unexpected turbulence has improved, clear air turbulence remains difficult to distinguish and there are still incidents where passengers and cabin crew are injured.
The results showed the average amount of light turbulence in the atmosphere will increase by 59 per cent with light-to-moderate turbulence rising by 75 per cent, moderate by 94 per cent, moderate-to-severe by 127 per cent and severe by 149 per cent.
Wow, I didn’t think turbulence would be affected, that sounds pretty extreme. The flight attendants must have been walking around the cabin when the turbulence occured on this flight.
