"Geographic location has much to do with why these airports are challenging for pilots," a former airline pilot told Newsweek ...

Planes experience turbulence when the air around it moves at an irregular ... Turbli.com has an interactive turbulence map that is updated online every six hours, but it doesn’t account for ...

DePodwin said: "These type of sudden turbulence events, along with clear air turbulence where no thunderstorms are present, ...

A bout of "severe" turbulence on a Korean Air flight in August left 14 people injured, shortly after the company announced it would stop serving instant noodles to try and prevent burn accidents ...

Getty Images| "People have very skewed ideas of what turbulence is," Seif explains. While shifting wind patterns, stronger winds and atmospheric pressure can cause air to turn choppy and planes to ...

If turbulence gives you the jitters, maybe fly around the Rocky Mountains — the high-elevation region was home to some of the most unsettled air in the US last year, according to a new report.

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 ...

While evocative ... On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy flight. Turbulence on a much larger scale is important ...

The most common type, called clear air turbulence (CAT), is defined by the Federal Aviation Administration as “sudden severe turbulence occurring in cloudless regions that causes violent ...

A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 airplane bound from London to Singapore encountered sudden and extreme turbulence at an altitude of about 11,000 meters above Myanmar, about 10 hours after takeoff ...