But you do have to wonder about tray table and seat design.
And the airlines aren’t kidding when they say keep those seatbelts fastened even after the seatbelt light goes off.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-bangkok-30-injured-thai-media-2024-05-21/
Climate scientists say to expect more severe and more frequent air turbulence as the planet heats up.
We may get to the point where the airline cabin staff are wearing safety harnesses like ironworkers on a high rise building and they tie off onto a rail the runs the length of the cabin as they move the beverage cart down the aisle.
You’ll probably need some kind of track to secure the beverage cart, too.
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It’s a little weird, but I always worried about that when I flew. I made sure I was sitting when the cart came down the aisle, as it sure seemed to me that if the plane banked or rose or dove suddenly, that cart could be lethally going down the aisle like a bowling ball, take out anybody in its path.
A favorite uncle of mine was a fearless super duper Naval aircraft aviator, and he fervently preached to the family “Not having your in flight aircraft seatbelt snugly buckled is like walking with a bloody nose through Tiger country.”
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Cliff Mass explains what happed on the Singapore Airlines flight from a meteorological standpoint:
Mass provides this graph which shows no increase in turbulence incidents (per 100,000 hours) over the last 35 years.
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Interesting.
Anyone flying without default fastening their seatbelt is a damn fool. Number of damn fools flying is increasing.
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