We’ve seen several stories lately of flights encountering severe turbulence. In the latest such incident, an Air Europa flight encountered turbulence so bad that a passenger literally got stuck in the overhead bin, and had to be rescued.
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Air Europa Boeing 787 encounters severe turbulence
This incident involves the June 30, 2024, Air Europa flight scheduled to operate from Madrid, Spain (MAD) to Montevideo, Uruguay (MVD), with the flight number UX45. The flight was operated by a six-year-old Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with the registration code EC-MTI, with 345 people onboard.
The flight was cruising at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean, when it encountered severe turbulence. The jet then diverted to the nearest airport, which was in Natal, Brazil (NTI). Around 30 passengers were injured, with some injuries being minor, and some being more serious. Fortunately no passengers are in critical condition.
Passengers report that the pilot stated that this was an incident of clear air turbulence. Air Europa sent a rescue Boeing 787-9 to nearby Recife, Brazil (REC), as passengers who weren’t still hospitalized were then flown to Montevideo, after spending a night in a hotel.
The pictures of the cabin are absolutely wild, with all kinds of fuselage panels falling off, and seats even breaking.
One passenger got stuck in the overhead bin
Perhaps the most shocking thing about this Air Europa incident is that one passenger somehow even got lodged above the overhead bin, and was stuck there. He had to be rescued by other passengers, and be pulled down.
The footage of this is absolutely wild, as you just see some feet sticking out from above the overhead bin. You can find the video below. I try to avoid posting grim footage, so let me note that it seems like he’s okay and it’s not too graphic, or else I wouldn’t post this.
I don’t even really understand the logistics of how something like that could happen. I’ve heard of people “flying” against the ceiling in severe turbulence if they’re not buckled in, but how do you not only fly up, but to the side, so that you get stuck in this way?
Bottom line
An Air Europa Boeing 787 encountered severe turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean, while enroute from Madrid to Montevideo. The flight diverted to Natal, Brazil, where several passengers were hospitalized. These kinds of incidents are always scary, and a good reminder to keep your seatbelt fastened whenever seated, and to observe the seatbelt sign.
The most shocking part of all this is seeing someone literally lodged in (or above) an overhead bin, as one has to wonder how that could even happen.
What do you make of this Air Europa severe turbulence incident?
Maybe, the guy was looking in the bin when the turbulence hit. He's holding on to the bin, turbulence hits and he goes in. But still, very odd.
What made him agree to be put in the overhead bin anyway and how did he get up there....
But how did the man honestly get up there? Was he trying to retrieve something from the overhead luggage when turbulence hit and he was sucked in?
When I first saw the photo I thought oh great another person grabbing their carry on for an emergency evacuation
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More views, more likes, more crazy stunts.
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Isn't there a sleeping compartment up there for crew? He looks too well-dressed to be a seated passenger.
I would imagine that instead of just riding on one of the ceiling panels like a Gravitron ride, he instead crashed through the panel, landing on the overhead storage. Are there any recorded incidents of this happening before climate change got as bad as it is now?
stogieguy7 and frrp have made assertions not backed by factual evidence nor sources. Human caused climate change is indeed worsening turbulence.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-is-making-airplane-turbulence-more-common-and-severe-scientists-say-180984440/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/singapore-airlines-turbulence-why-climate-change-is-making-flights-rougher/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulence-climate-change-singapore-airlines
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103814
stogieguy7 and frrp have made assertions not backed by factual evidence nor sources. Human caused climate change is indeed worsening turbulence.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-is-making-airplane-turbulence-more-common-and-severe-scientists-say-180984440/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/singapore-airlines-turbulence-why-climate-change-is-making-flights-rougher/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulence-climate-change-singapore-airlines
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103814
LOL
You are no different the deniers too.
The only thing you proved is you know how to use Google.
Did you know all your sources is citing back the the same paper. A paper that isn't peer reviewed nor is there other evidence from a different research.
You can drop 20 more links, but at the end it still leads to the same echo chamber.
A possible theory, but no solid evidence.
...LOL
You are no different the deniers too.
The only thing you proved is you know how to use Google.
Did you know all your sources is citing back the the same paper. A paper that isn't peer reviewed nor is there other evidence from a different research.
You can drop 20 more links, but at the end it still leads to the same echo chamber.
A possible theory, but no solid evidence.
The number of people who up vote for you indicates how many people got brainwashed by fake news.
Thankfully this was not British Airways, or the man would be stuck up there while the flight diverts all the way back to origin.
Thankfully this was not you, or it would have been an arse instead of a plane ceiling.
Items have a tendency to shift...
Turbelence and injuries due to turbulence can happen but I'm more concerned about how a seat decided to fold like that due to turbulence.
Larger passenger?
You can see from the photo the tray table is completely shear off as well so whoever hit that seat hit it with enough force to not only break the tray table clear off the seat they also hit it with enough force to break the seat back as well.
Just a small correction: IATA code for Natal is NAT, not NTI.
Anyone have any insights as to why they'd bus a plane load of pax 4.5 hours to a different airport? Sure, Recife is a busier airport, but Natal's still an international airport, and has a slightly longer runway. Looks like neither customarily gets a Dreamliner, so they probably would've had to board via air stairs at either airport due to lack of towbar. I'm puzzled.
Plane was flying in the intertropical zone, a region notorious for turbulence (this is the general area where AF 447 went down). We are months if not weeks away from global mandate that seatbelts must be worn at all times when seated. Climate change is here and aviation will need to adapt.
Save the "climate change is here and I believe, halleluiah!" crap for the sheep. For one thing, it's the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ that you're referring to. Secondly, it has existed since the Earth was a snowball. Third, severe turbulance has always existed and always will. The slight warming in temperatures may increase it's probability slightly but it's really a rounding error.
Stop using every freakin' incident in the news to proselytise...
Save the "climate change is here and I believe, halleluiah!" crap for the sheep. For one thing, it's the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ that you're referring to. Secondly, it has existed since the Earth was a snowball. Third, severe turbulance has always existed and always will. The slight warming in temperatures may increase it's probability slightly but it's really a rounding error.
Stop using every freakin' incident in the news to proselytise for "climate change" like some Jehova's Witness on LSD.
You sound like a fun human.
Check your spelling, right wing fascist. It is spelled T-U-R-B-U-L-E-N-C-E
Sounds like you're the fascist, trying to stop people from speaking their opinion
The climate is obviously changing, just as it has done continuously since the atmosphere first evolved. There were rainforests in the Arctic during the Cretaceous Period, and at other times Earth was almost a snowball. It's time we stopped bickering about expensive trivialities like "net zero", accepted that it's something we cannot change, and started adapting.
Its nothing to do with climate change lol
stogieguy7 and frrp have made assertions not backed by factual evidence nor sources.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-is-making-airplane-turbulence-more-common-and-severe-scientists-say-180984440/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/singapore-airlines-turbulence-why-climate-change-is-making-flights-rougher/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulence-climate-change-singapore-airlines
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103814
stogieguy7 and frrp have made assertions not backed by factual evidence nor sources.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-is-making-airplane-turbulence-more-common-and-severe-scientists-say-180984440/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/singapore-airlines-turbulence-why-climate-change-is-making-flights-rougher/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulence-climate-change-singapore-airlines
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103814
Another Boeing issue. How many more to come?
Let the investigators decide whether or not this issues has anything to do with the airframe (Boeing). Or was the passenger requested to put the seatbelt on and didn't when they hit turbulence.
I don't see why you're quick to point out Boeing in this situation.
I see the sarcasm in Sean’s post. As for the man stuck in the overhead, is it possible that he was standing up trying to get something from his bag and disregarded the seat belt sign?
Exactly! everyone is so biased and doesnt see what a great company boeing is. Yes they have some issues they need to fix, and they are doing things to fix them like buying back Spirito aerosystems for a couple BILLION dollars. A couple BILLION to HOPEFULLY improve quality.
Sure Boeing is bashed often unreasonably nowadays. But the "great company" we should see intentionally and on high levels lied to regulators in order to accelarate shipping, then agreed they would do massive changes to fix their problems but presumaly all money intended for this was payed to hitmen because it seems they have been unable to stop systematic issues but instead all Boeing whistleblowers die young...
This is why media should be regulated - media nowadays will publish anything that will generate views, even the untruthful stuff. And those guys will take everything media says.
Whoever is lobbying the media should really be happy with the results.
Is one to assume that you are not in favour of freedom of speech?
Freedom of speech is a basic human right in democratic western societies.
@AeroB13a
Basic human rights, right. But the nation that violates, or at least supports the nation that violates "basic human rights" doesn't deserve one.
@AeroB13a
Also, it's a shame that people like you are seeing freedom of speech just as a way to legalize spreading false information, as opposed to the reason why they exist - which was to express the truth without fearing about the consequences from the government.
I wonder if everyone that was injured was wearing their seat belt low and tight around their waist? I don’t get it when people are seated on the plane when up in the air and not having their seat belt fastened
Ben noticed that it was CAT.
Yes, but I still wonder if some of the people injured were in their seats unbuckled
Undoubtedly! Seatbelts are build to avoid any kind of "replacing" a passenger. I remember seeing pictures of bodies seated after a crash.
Wonder if they charged him for extra luggage? lol. Seriously, glad no one is in serious condition though.