Pilots and aviation experts said that lightning and turbulence were both common experiences which rarely brought a plane down.
The fierce thunderstorms, turbulence, lightning or a catastrophic combination of events could have broken apart the plane, aviation experts have said.
A woman behind him threw up into her barf bag, and as babies screamed and lightning flashed outside the turbulence got even worse.
Not even after an hour and I was sure we weren't at cruising altitude as I could still see lights and we were still at low altitude in unstable air - lightning flickered outside and turbulence caused the plane to dip and rise and I waited.
OTHER natural forces, including craters, lightning, cyclones, clouds, dust devils, turbulence, streams and convection, are explored in various exhibits.
Lightning strike, screaming passengers, severe turbulence.
Our 737-800 (that's the exact same aircraft above) stood up to a direct lightning strike and nearly 45 minutes of severe turbulence, getting us to our destination safely (though literally quite shaken up).
On the Thursday night before the game, the Trojans charter flight experienced severe turbulence on approach to South Bend Regional Airport during a lightning storm; their aircraft dropped and threw several passengers (players, coaches and their spouses) from their seats and hit their heads on the ceiling during an initial approach that was aborted before the plane circled and landed safely.
This creates favorable opportunities to study the turbulence of the D-region using the ELF-VLF waves radiated by lightning.
During this stage, considerable internal turbulence can occur in the storm system, which manifests as strong winds, severe lightning, and even tornadoes.
