Plane drops 50 feet in turbulence on the approach to Tampa

Watch as a plane experiences rough turbulence on the approach to Tampa, Florida in inclement weather. The drop caused loose items to fly around the cabin and some overhead bin doors to open. Everyone remained calm and the pilots did an amazing job navigating around the storms.

[mystify]

does anyone feel kinda nostalgic when they hear that beeping noise on the airplane

[jackroman]

Just pointing something out. A plane dropping 50 feet isn’t all that bad. A plane normally descends at 2000 feet per minute which after some math is 30 feet per second. And when In a vertical cloud that has strong winds pushing down, a drop of 50 feet is quite common. Not discrediting the video. But just pointing out that the severity isn’t all that great.

[IncredibleStan]

The worst turbulence I've ever experienced was a connection flight from Nashville to Memphis. The plan violently shook from the time we took off until we landed. I was trying to sleep but I hit my head and it was hurting and I wanted to cuss out loud.

[syracuseaviation]

Tbh I've grown to be quite a fan of turbulence, at least for a few minutes. I'm well aware at this point that it's perfectly safe for the most part unless you're flying through some really bad stuff. I enjoy the feeling of sudden dips and such.

[Major_Tom]

Reminds me of the turbulence on a United Airlines flight I took as we descended through a springtime thunderstorm on approach to CHS. We were in for quite a ride, someone even fell in the aisle!

[aviationchannel]

I used to be a frequent flyer and most of the flights I was on were smooth. Even if there was turbulence, it would only be like 15 minutes of being a little bumpy. But I do remember flying on an A340-600 (flying pencil) and the turbulence was pretty strong.

[prorobo]

You didn’t even “drop 50 feet, ” you encountered a few bumps flying through build ups. The altitude barely fluctuated at all.

[LethalDude]

Plane dropped faster then my grades during online school

[ac]

Sometimes I'm thankful to live in CA since we hardly ever get bad flying weather other than winds, but then again we live with the constant risk of quakes.

[quantumpilot]

I think we know what the moral of the story is. if you see a big cloud hold on for dear life or if your like me and like aviation put your hands in the air like it’s a rollercoaster drop.

[YoQuieroDineroPodcast]

I flew yesterday into Tampa and it was insanity!

[spanishpeaches]

Went through a big thunderstorm when flying to Majorca back in '75, when I was kid. It was horrible, the plane was jumping all around and lightening flashes everywhere. Very nervous flyer since then and try to fly only hen absolutely necessary. My dad, said it was very rough and he'd been a Lanc pilot in WW2 !

[Tom-ndfs]

A few years ago, flying Hong-Kong to DC on Cathy Pacific B777, we hit turbulance over the sea between Korea and Japan. I have never experienced turbalance that bad I thought we were going down. Afterwards I talked to the flight attendant and he said he has seen worse. The whole time, I wanted the pilot to land Japan and just drop us off there. Man, the jetstreams over the Pacific are no joke.

[theguitarboy]

Clouds looks nice but going through them is fucking scary

[QQ]

I didn't see any drop... this was a COMPLETELY normal descent into Tampa

[sarahsullivan]

About 20 some years ago I was coming back from a family vacation in Cancun as a young teen. We were flying over the southern US around Georgia when there was a bad storm. The plane suddenly dropped 1000 ft during dinner. It happened so fast everything started flying to the top of the cabin. It was the scariest 15/30 seconds of my life. It all happened too quickly to even think. I remember hearing a flight attendant had injured her neck hitting the top of the airplane cabin and was down in the cargo being attended too. Thankfully everyone made it back to DTW that day. I will never forget that.

[brittanybvl]

Flew from Vancouver to Hawaii (Honolulu) last Wednesday; scariest turbulence I've ever experienced for the last hour of the flight. Our pilot gave us a potential turbulence warning on take off, but when we actually started experiencing it for the last hour all I could think was "Why would they fly through this?!?!" Never been so happy to be back on the ground lol.

[LegendaryFrxst_Drxgon]

I can relate to this, one time I was going to Florida with my family and we dropped a bit during a turbulence and we all started screaming, I hated it but now since that was 3 years ago I find it funny.

[mrsmjones]

I’ve been to Tampa 10 times now, 7 out of 10 times there has been severe/bad turbulence on approach to the airport. This happens all the time and is completely normal, Florida usually have severe/worrying thunderstorms all the time, it completely the norm there. Turbulence is usually caused by wind pushing the plane around. If you think or a bird in the wind, the bird gets pushed around BUT NEVER FALLS it stays in the air, this is the same with a plane, the plane gets pushed around BUT DOESN’T EVER FALL, this is because of the air o dynamics. - (For anyone scared of flying to Florida because of this) (There honestly nothing to worry about)

Whenever you feel the plane drop, this is because the pilot is trying to get below the “storm” so it won’t worry/disturb the passengers to much and for to long. This isn’t because the thunderstorm is life threatening and you might die if you stay in it, he is only dropping the plane for your comfort 👍.

Anyways, Planes can take A LOT of thunderstorm abuse, it can tolerate anything almost. I mean there was a delta flight once which flew inside of HURRICANE IRMA at 180mph winds, but every single person on the plane only ever said “it the was the most fun, and best experience of my life”

[golemer]

fun fact i was flying over the bay of bengal (one of the most turbulent places in the world) and the plane started to fall for like 10 seconds or more, like really fast on a 787 max in 2019