HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Severe turbulence hit a Hawaiian Airlines flight and left dozens injured in December 2022 because the cockpit crew chose to fly over a storm cell, rather than around it.

An Austrian Airlines passenger plane was seriously damaged after flying through an unexpected hailstorm on Sunday, June 9. Flight OS434 was traveling from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Vienna, Austria, ...

A SkyWest flight made an emergency landing Monday night after its flight crew "was knocking on the cockpit door" over a communications issue with the pilot, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

Turbulence, particularly clear air turbulence, is becoming more frequent and severe. The three main types of turbulence are mountain wave, convective, and clear air turbulence. Staying buckled up ...

There’s nothing quite like a “don’t sink” alert screaming at the cockpit to shake an airline and an industry into top gear. And that’s precisely what took place a mere 38 hours after the calamitous ...

Dozens aboard an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay on Monday were injured from severe turbulence, and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Brazil, marking the second such mid-air ...

Turbulence that injured more than a dozen people on a Delta Air Lines flight came with little warning to the pilots, even though they knew they were near thunderstorms, according to a new preliminary ...

All frequent flyers have heard the pilot’s admonition, which usually goes something like this: “We recommend you keep your seat belts fastened while you are in your seats, just as we do in the cockpit ...

Pilots go through the same bumpy turbulence as passengers, but they see it in a completely different way. They spend hundreds of hours learning exactly how much motion an airliner can safely absorb in ...

Emirates is using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how it predicts bumpy turbulence on its flights. Experts say that climate change is making severe turbulence more likely, with pilots ...