6 years ago I was on a flight and about an hour after taking off the plane suddenly did a 45° nosedive for like 30 seconds. The scary part is that neither the cabin crew nor the captain notified us. It was all of sudden.
A friend’s uncle who is a pilot explained to me that at 30 thousand feet and up there are phenomena where the atmosphere density is much lower kinda “airless” holes and the plane can suddenly lose lift and stall. Satellites and onboard instruments usually calculate the best paths to avoid them, but it cannot detect them if they are too small but big enough to force the pilot to do that stunt to regain lift.
The lavatory queue was as long as the plane after it stabilized.
I thought regular turbulences were a little scary. I’m not even scared about them anymore. 😂
That must have been one hell of an experience.
Encountering such event is like winning the national lottery.
The first thing that came up in my head was “So this is it”
I’m fucking enjoying every seconds of my life since.
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