Full original reading on Techno-Science. During flight, aircraft can encounter zones of turbulence known as clear-air turbulence. Occurring in regions without convective clouds, these turbulences ...

VIENNA—Scientists at the European Geosciences Union conference last week said there is growing scientific evidence that global warming is driving a big increase in dangerous clear-air turbulence ...

As the air becomes unstable, it breaks into fast-moving chaotic swirls. An aircraft encountering turbulence is shaken as it encounters fast-flowing, swirling airflow.

Clear air turbulence, which is more challenging to detect, increased by 50% between 1979 and 2020. Based on the research alone that the occurrence of turbulence has increased, one could argue that ...

Clear air turbulence occurs at high altitudes, where aircraft cruise in seemingly calm blue skies. It can't be seen by the naked eye and is undetectable by onboard sensors .

Since it’s sometimes impossible to anticipate when an aircraft will encounter clear air turbulence, the only way to be 100% safe is to keep strapped in for the whole ride. Does it damage aircraft?

What does clear air turbulence feel like? It is either a sudden, very scary bump in the flight, possibly with a turn involved, or a more protracted series of uncomfortable vertical movements.

From 2009 through 2018, it found that turbulence accounted for more than a third of reported events and most resulted in one or more serious injuries, but no aircraft damage. Yet fatal turbulence ...

Severe clear-air turbulence has increased by 55% since 1979, moderate by 37%, and light by 17%. Clear-air turbulence is invisible and hard to forecast and it is predicted to double by 2050.

Since it's sometimes impossible to anticipate when an aircraft will encounter clear air turbulence, the only way to be 100% safe is to keep strapped in for the whole ride.

Since it's sometimes impossible to anticipate when an aircraft will encounter clear air turbulence, the only way to be 100% safe is to keep strapped in for the whole ride.

American Airlines flight 2905 departed from Tampa at 5:39 p.m. Thursday heading to Charlotte when the Airbus A321 encountered "unexpected turbulence," an American Airlines spokesperson told USA TODAY.