With severe injuries from turbulence on a recent Singapore Airlines flight, questions abound over why airplanes encounter this phenomenon and whether climate change really will make it worse.
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Air travel is safer than you might think, despite the publicity surrounding the recent Singapore Airlines incident. Here’s what’s going on to distort your perception of risk.
It’s unclear exactly what happened to violently shake up LATAM flight 800, but the moral for passengers is clear: wear your seatbelt.
Turbulence strong enough to pose an injury risk could be set to double or triple in frequency in the future.
When something disrupts the smooth, laminar flow of high-altitude winds, your flight might get a little bumpy.
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Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century; ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Meteorology, University of Reading
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Reading
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PhD Student in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
