58 minutes ago, stans said:

This is why I keep my seat belt fastened.

Surely, always keeping your seat belt fastened prevents you, in extreme cases of this type, from flying towards the ceiling of the plane with all the consequences of the case but from my experience which has happened to me twice, wearing a seat belt cannot save you from all the objects and passengers that can fall on your head, not to mention the accidental opening of the overhead compartments with luggage spilling onto the passengers below.

Reiterating what I said in a previous post, I believe that in the event of extreme events of this type, in addition to always wearing seat belts, a system of inflatable protections should be studied which come into operation automatically, for example on the upper parts of the corridors, from under the hat racks or armchair headrests.

In this specific case, both from the statements of the passengers and from the published data, it seems that it was a case of a double turbulence event with very strong lateral winds which suddenly caused the plane to first take a very steep angle of climb with very strong shaking to then suffered a very strong downward wind which caused the impact on the upper parts of the passengers and A/Vs who were not wearing their seat belts, with objects and panels falling onto the seated passengers.

13 hours ago, RobPol471 said:

Reiterating what I said in a previous post, I believe that in the event of extreme events of this type, in addition to always wearing seat belts, a system of inflatable protections should be studied which come into operation automatically, for example on the upper parts of the corridors, from under the hat racks or armchair headrests.

In other words, airbags for airliners!  🤓

Heard  today in the news  that the  lawyers are  coming  into play  for  a  class  action  for  the  injured  passengers,   wonder  how  they will go.

I feel a new notice to aircrew about avoiding all convective weather by at least 50NM is being written as we speak.

Transport Safety Investigation Bureau Preliminary Investigation Findings of Incident Involving SQ321 provided by Ministry of Transport Singapore

 

https://www.mot.gov.sg/news/Details/transport-safety-investigation-bureau-preliminary-investigation-findings-of-incident-involving-sq321

So, as was obvious, convective weather and complete nonsense spouted by the agenda driven media 

15 hours ago, jon b said:

So, as was obvious, convective weather and complete nonsense spouted by the agenda driven media 

theres reports (some unoffical) that they flew straight through it

Edited May 30, 20242 yr by fluffyflops

It’s sounding that way, yes.