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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...