There’s a reason cabin crew tell you to keep your seatbelt on, but this week’s LATAM incident shows it’s more important than ever.
Airline passengers should be prepared for more bumps and turbulence in future, according to aviation experts, and have been urged to leave their seatbelts on whenever seated on flights.
, who will focus on human error or technical fault, as New Zealand authorities seize cockpit voice recordings and flight data.As Boeing and Chile authorities work to gather more intel, should Australians be buckling up as a matter of course? The LATAM incident, which hospitalised 13 people, highlights the importance of buckling up mid-flight.Professor Rico Merkert, an aviation expert at the University of Sydney, said technical aircraft issues resulting in incidents, as in the LATAM flight, are extremely rare. However, fastening seatbelts during flights is a highly sensible precaution, with aircraft contending with more unstable “air pockets”, descending air currents that can cause a plane to drop abruptly.
The study, which measured the frequency of turbulence over a 40-year period, showed that one of the world’s busiest flight routes over the North Atlantic Ocean had experienced a 55 per cent increase in severe turbulence since 1979, with significant increases in moderate to light turbulence too .
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