List Of Flight Routes With The Worst Turbulence, Plane Shakes Hard

Flight routes with the worst turbulence (Freepic)

YOGYAKARTA - Airplane passengers often worry about turbulence during air travel. Turbulence is the occurrence of irregular movements in the air due to air flow changing drastically or vertical currents. In fact, turbulence is a natural condition experienced by aircraft.

Airplanes usually experience turbulence when they hit a cloud or face bad weather. Under mild conditions, turbulence can cause vibrations or collisions felt by airplane passengers. But if the case is more severe, the turbulence has the potential to shake the plane.

Although turbulence is quite disturbing to comfort, in fact each aircraft has been designed to be able to withstand turbulence. In addition, the pilot can also see from the weather radar to estimate when it will experience trubulesi.

Turbulence disturbances are often unavoidable when you take plane transportation. There are some flight routes with the worst turbulence you need to know for those who often travel by air.

In plane flights, there are routes or routes that are traversed in the air. This flight route is a direction or track so that the aircraft remains on their respective lanes and does not collide with other aircraft.

However, each flight route has different characteristics between natural conditions and geographic conditions on each route. For example, there are flight routes with high turbulence and some with minimal turbulence.

For people who often board planes, turbulence may not be too worrying. But for people who have just boarded a plane or several times, turbulence can cause panic or fear.

Based on data from the National Atmospheric Research Center, an overall of about 65,000 flights experience turbulence every year. Meanwhile, about 5,000 flights face severe turbulence.

Turbli's turbulence prediction site replaced 150,000 flight routes that received severe turbulence in 2023. As a result, there were as many as 10 domestic and international flight routes known as the most turbulent or severe turbulence routes.

The following are 10 aircraft flight routes in the world that experience severe turbulence:

If you travel on the routes above, don't be surprised if you are going to experience turbulence. It's better if you are wary or prepared to feel the shock or vibration on the plane.

Santiago and Santa Cruz are one of the most frequent flight routes in the world. This is not surprising because this 1,899 km long route passes through the Andes mountains.

As the plane crosses the mountains at high speed, mountain air waves can cause planes to suddenly get up and down due to the air pattern that hit them.

Six of the most turbulent flight routes are domestic routes in Japan and China. According to Gallego Marcos, routes in Japan and China often experience turbulence due to high jet flow activity in the region.

Jet Stream is a very strong wind stream moving from West to East, stretching at an altitude of 8.5 km to 11.2 km above sea level. The route between Almaty in Kazakhstan and Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, ranks second.

This route is known as one of the most frequent turbulence. Based on existing case records, seven people were injured in a tough flight last year due to turbulence.

Those are flight routes with the worst turbulence in the world. If you are going to travel through the routes above, you should prepare yourself from the start. If you experience turbulence in the middle of air travel, make sure to maintain a calm attitude and don't panic excessively. Also read

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