Could Severe Turbulence Cause A Plane To Crash? | Mysteries of the Missing

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Airbus A330 Flight A447 goes down during a flight from Rio to Paris. Experts study debris and weather for a cause; but when the fuselage is finally found, there are more questions than answers.

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[edfromchowderheads]

It didn't. It's pitot tubes froze up. Therefore received incorrect readings. The pilots were confused and disorientated . The first officer held the nose up. The plane stalled, and crashed. The initial problem was well known and easily correctable.

[sogasogaso]

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[LeosResearch]

If the turbulence severe enough, it can crush anything.

[KB-tgpf]

So much for the "turbulence has never caused a plane crash" line.

[AurioDK]

I was on a TAP flight some 30 years ago heading to Copenhagen from Lisbon. We ran into the worst turbulence I have ever experienced and things just started flying about while people were screaming, children crying and some were praying, I am atheist so all I could do was hope. I had a window sit overlooking the right wing and something looked very odd, I think the flaps were jammed but I couldn´t be sure and pressed the button. No one came straight away, it took 10 minutes for a pilot to come over and we were immediately diverted back to Lisbon.

I never figured out what went wrong or if something at all was causing problems, we weren´t told anything but I could swear I never saw those flaps move, could easily have been my imagination. We landed safely in Lisbon. To my knowledge no information was released to the passengers about any trouble.

[rodelliott]

Austral crash in 1997 was not turbulence either. It's pitot tubes froze, pilot accelerated, but believed he was losing speed and he pulled down the flaps and at that speed, tore the wing apart

[MisterCF]

I experienced medium turbulence and panted, on way from LAX to ICN! How cruel it was!

[rfi-cryptolab]

It could contribute to a crash, but it's unlikely. I recall an accident involving an MD-80 type aircraft that flew into a convective sigmet. They had extreme turbulence, got their windshield busted by hail, and had a dual flame out from large hail.

[kwak]

so turbulence can take down a plane. most other video tends to say no.

[ItzTytan]

Making that detachable cabin safety design possible would help avoid some catastrophic accidents. Safety standards should be given more time and value. Looking forward to the design by the russian engineer.

[charlydatduclai]

In 1997, that Austral flight crashed due to pilot error, not turbulence! If turbulence could bring down that Austral flight, it can take down any down aircraft! But my flight has gone through turbulence far more severe than this one before and it did not bring down my flight, that is why I am still alive today! Airplane wings are designed to be able to flex up 35 degrees to 45 degrees, this means that they can handle far more force that even the most severe turbulence can create before their wings snap off!! Aircraft wings are in fact much more stronger than severe turbulence and they can also withstand lots of severe force caused by turbulence for up to several hours without their wings snapping off!!

[alejandrocarrillo]

Ok firstable there is no such thing as a turbulence airplane crush, no matter how severe turbulence is or bad weather there's no way it could crash, second of all the only reason the plane crashed it's because it was the pilots fault

[davidbennett]

What a stupid question" can turbulence bring down a plane"it does all the time why else do planes avoid thunder storms. Hell the delta flight at DFW. Slammed the ground on a sunny summer day, killing most on board, from a down draft.