It appears the Boeing 777-300 encountered clear air turbulence over the Bay of Bengal, south of the southern tip of Myanmar, just before 9am British time. A turn towards Bangkok and a rapid ...

Clear-air turbulence: How common is it and why is it so dangerous? Clear-air turbulence can catch pilots off-guard since it doesn't come with visible warnings in the sky ahead. Flight turbulence ...

“A lot of people are focused on the jet stream and clear air turbulence with commercial aviation. That said, you can get ...

Now you can add inflight air turbulence to the list. A recent U.K. study suggests that clear-air turbulence—the kind that can strike airliners without warning at high altitudes—will intensify ...

In a similar incident, seven passengers on a commercial Lufthansa flight were hospitalized after running into "clear-air turbulence." In December, 36 people were injured during turbulence on a ...

"We get better at detecting turbulence all the time, and it will get even better in the future," Casner says. While clear air turbulence is still difficult to detect because it's invisible ...

Turbulence is air that is unstable and moves in a way that cannot be predicted. Most people link turbulence with severe storms. The most perilous type of turbulence is clear-air turbulence ...

Radical changes to air travel are expected after a British passenger died of a heart attack when a Singapore Airlines flight from Heathrow to Singapore hit severe turbulence last month. Experts ...