HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Severe turbulence hit a Hawaiian Airlines flight and left dozens injured in December 2022 because the cockpit crew chose to fly over a storm cell, rather than around it.

Turbulence, particularly clear air turbulence, is becoming more frequent and severe. The three main types of turbulence are mountain wave, convective, and clear air turbulence. Staying buckled up ...

There’s nothing quite like a “don’t sink” alert screaming at the cockpit to shake an airline and an industry into top gear. And that’s precisely what took place a mere 38 hours after the calamitous ...

A SkyWest flight made an emergency landing Monday night after its flight crew "was knocking on the cockpit door" over a communications issue with the pilot, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

Dozens aboard an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay on Monday were injured from severe turbulence, and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Brazil, marking the second such mid-air ...

All frequent flyers have heard the pilot’s admonition, which usually goes something like this: “We recommend you keep your seat belts fastened while you are in your seats, just as we do in the cockpit ...

Bangkok — Singapore Airlines said Friday it will halt meal services and get all cabin crew to buckle up when planes fly through turbulence as part of tighter cabin measures after one person died and ...

Turbulence that injured more than a dozen people on a Delta Air Lines flight came with little warning to the pilots, even though they knew they were near thunderstorms, according to a new preliminary ...

Pilots go through the same bumpy turbulence as passengers, but they see it in a completely different way. They spend hundreds of hours learning exactly how much motion an airliner can safely absorb in ...

The skies can be clear, blue, and tranquil. "And all of a sudden, boom, you hit it," Dan Bubb, a former airline pilot and now an aviation historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told ...

Emirates is using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how it predicts bumpy turbulence on its flights. Experts say that climate change is making severe turbulence more likely, with pilots ...