This comes after eight people were hospitalised in Dublin on Sunday following extreme turbulence on a Qatar Airways flight and a week after a 73-year-old man died when a Singapore Airlines flight plunged 6,000ft in a matter of seconds
Airlines need to think about how to manage increased turbulence, as a continuous rise in global temperatures means it’s only set to get worse, a meteorological researcher has said.
However, it’s affecting many parts of our lives that we may not even realise, including air travel. While flying is one of the most carbon-intensive activities, it isn’t only contributing massively to human-induced global warming but it’s also being negatively impacted by it. These findings align with predictions by researchers at the University of Chicago, who forecast that rising temperatures could increase wind speeds in the ‘fastest upper-level jet stream’.
Professor Williams said that clear-air turbulence is very difficult to avoid because it doesn’t show up on the weather radar in the flight deck.
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