Severe Turbulence for Aeroflot 777 Flight to Thailand

Always a good idea to keep your seat belt on while flying.

Turbulence leaves 27 seriously injured on passenger jet | Daily Mail Online

The flight from Hell: Horrific turbulence leaves 27 passengers with serious injuries including broken bones after they were hurled around the cabin on flight to Bangkok.

Severe turbulence hit Aeroflot flight an hour before landing in Bangkok, Thailand.
At least 20 people - including three babies - suffered major injuries in turbulence.

Video shows people thrown out of their seats and food strewn around the cabin.
Injuries included broken bones while some had internal and external bleeding.

These were the chaotic scenes on board an Aeroflot plane as major turbulence threw passengers all over the cabin on a flight between Russia and Thailand.

At least 27 people - including three babies - suffered major injuries including suspected broken bones in the carnage which happened en route from Moscow to Bangkok.
Dramatic video shows passengers lying injured in the aisle after they were hurled up to the ceiling.

The babies were thrown out of their mothers' arms by the force of the severe turbulence one hour before landing in Bangkok, said a source.
People walking in the aisle and without seat belts on were injured.
Luggage as well as food and drink from the trolleys was strewn all over the cabin.

Evgenia Zibrova posted a shocking video with the comment: 'Numerous air pockets one hour before landing led to broken bones, internal and external bleeding.
'Babies are covered in bruises, people lost consciousness. Thanks that we are still alive. Aeroflot, please help these people.'

Vladimir Sosnov, deputy head of Russian Consulate in Thailand, said: 'The injured suffered multiple fractures. There are both Russian and foreign citizens among them.'
He said: 'Apparently, those who were injured did not have their seat belts fastened.'

The plane - a Boeing 777 and packed with tourists - hit several successive areas of turbulence en route to Bangkok.
The flight crew kept control of the aircraft and the injured passengers were rushed to hospital on arrival in the Thai capital.

A source said 19 people were hospitalised in Bangkok, with two undergoing urgent surgery.
Others were treated with first aid after the incident on board flight SU 270.

A source told Interfax: 'A Boeing 777 plane suddenly got into the zone of strong turbulence before starting to descend.
'There had been no order to fasten seat belts at that moment.
'As a result, the plane was jolted by hundreds of metres, and some passengers were thrown into the space between the chairs suffering traumas.'

The Russian embassy is providing assistance to the injured passengers.
Aeroflot later said that none of the passengers suffered serious spinal injuries, despite earlier reports.
However, 17 remained in hospital with 'contusions' and 'fractured or broken bones'.
The airline agreed to pay all medical costs of the injured.

The airline said: 'An experienced crew piloted the flight.
'The pilot has more than 23 thousand flight hours, and the co-pilot has over 10,500 flight hours.
'However, the turbulence that hit the Boeing 777 was impossible to foresee.

'The incident was caused by what is known in aviation as 'clear-air turbulence'.
'Such turbulence occurs without any clouds, in clear skies with good visibility, and weather radar is unable to alert of its approach. In such situations, the crew is unable to warn passengers of the need to return to their seats.'
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yikes.

good thing the pilots had their seat belts on.

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Amen to that!

 

It's going to take a long time to clean up that plane. Other photos show lots of blood splattered about.

 

To go through turbulence that severe without any damage speaks pretty well of the airplane. i always stay belted when I fly.

 

This is why I never wear yoga pants on a plane. You never know when the world will be watching.

 

Unbelievable 27 people did not have their seat belts fastened. That is just asking for it.

 

First guess....any A380's in the vicinity?

 

I'm guessing that Aeroflot doesn't have the keep-seat-belt-fastened recommendation in their safety speech. Remember that for many years, that recommendation wasn't made in the U.S., either.

 

That aisle looks like something from a United flight!

 

Someone needs to check the cockpit tapes for "extra curricular activity"

 

I'm surprised its only 27 out of 300. You can have 20 people standing in the aisles at any given time on a long haul jumbo flight.

Plus 12 or so crew...

 

When I'm sitting my seat belt is fastened. Always.

One rough experience was enough to scar me for life.

Kai

 

Somewhere on the leeward side of some very big hills.

Read once that Airbus has to fly longer routes in that area because they can't top the Himalayas whereas the 777 can.

 

The 777 is one of Boeing's greatest, if not THE greatest.

 

According to Airbus sales info on the A340, it is the 777 that has to do less direct routing because of engine out performance. The Airbus data is using a London/Singapore route.

But an hour north of Bangkok should not have those mountains as an issue.

 

And about the only place you can find A340's these days is at the salvage/scrap yards.

 

Except when United goes with 10 wide seating in coach

 

You can't blame Boeing for that. My old group designed the best seating arrangements pitch-wise and widths. When the customer got the airplane they " sardine-ized" it. After we busted our cans to save weight, they turned around and installed a 1800 pound in-flight entertainment system.

 

People do the same with Ferraris all the time. Buy the all the bells and whistles model with all the lightweight stuff, no carpets, titanium dodads etc then pay some high school kid to destroy the electrical system installing 150lbs of infotainment crap.

It has the best sound reproduction quality known to man so it can fight with the engine and road noise in an uninsulated cabin.

Yea, seen that one many times.

 

Now it appears that in-flight entertainment systems may be going the way of open overhead luggage racks. Since more and more people are bringing their own entertainment on board, combined with the ready availability of WiFi, airlines are now planning to get rid of the in-flight systems and all that weight.

 

Yup. The first satellite based infotainment screens I enjoyed but what with the crap I've endured the last few times I just bring my own now. But it's all that extra crap to lug on board. Even that is now under threat. I don't travel with a laptop so it's extra stuff for me.

But with this American Airlines is cutting more legroom in economy class - May. 2, 2017

It looks like they'll be saving a lot more weight soon as they drive passengers off of their flights. This is NA domestic only.