Never been this scared on a flight before- can you help?
Never been this scared on a flight before- can you help?
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TopTrump

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3,457 posts

193 months

Saturday 23rd August
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Edited by TopTrump on Sunday 5th October 09:54

TopTrump

Original Poster:

3,457 posts

193 months

Saturday 23rd August
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Flight was PM on Thursday evening- 21st Aug

CountyLines

3,759 posts

22 months

Saturday 23rd August
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Whos Jude?

How did you measure the G force?

essayer

10,292 posts

213 months

Saturday 23rd August
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768

18,099 posts

115 months

Saturday 23rd August
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This one? Doesn't seem visible in the ADS-B data.

https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/EWG464/hist...

Batfoy

1,421 posts

25 months

Saturday 23rd August
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What did Jude say when you asked him/her? Did they take a sad song and make it better?

sherman

14,661 posts

234 months

Saturday 23rd August
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Did the steward just give the flight crew a cup of really hot coffee in a cheap paper cup 1 minute before this abrupt manouver?

TopTrump

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Saturday 23rd August
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768 said:
This one? Doesn't seem visible in the ADS-B data.

https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/EWG464/hist...
That's the one

TopTrump

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Saturday 23rd August
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CountyLines said:
Whos Jude?

How did you measure the G force?
Does it matter? Are you going to help or just be a bellend?

JoshSm

2,212 posts

56 months

Saturday 23rd August
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768 said:
This one? Doesn't seem visible in the ADS-B data.

https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/EWG464/hist...
Don't know if there's a better dataset but you can see something happened at 13.20, the descent is interrupted and the aircraft climbs before continuing to descend again. Airspeed briefly increases too which is a glitch in the overall trend.

Looks like an autopilot descent up to that point as the plot is so straight, after that the profile is different for 5 or 6 minutes.

normalbloke

8,241 posts

238 months

Saturday 23rd August
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Did you have your seatbelt on?

CountyLines

3,759 posts

22 months

Saturday 23rd August
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TopTrump said:
CountyLines said:
Whos Jude?

How did you measure the G force?
Does it matter? Are you going to help or just be a bellend?
It will help the NTSB investigation if you answer the questions.

Sheepshanks

38,286 posts

138 months

Saturday 23rd August
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It did make a left turn over the North Sea about 30 mins out which is out of line with that flight’s usual track.

I’d say the pilots forgot where they going and had an “oh st” moment.

ATG

22,566 posts

291 months

Saturday 23rd August
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OP, what "help" are you after? Sounds like you hit some turbulence and that triggered some understandable hysteria amongst the passengers and fired up your imagination. Could have been the wake of an aircraft ahead of you, could have been clear air turbulence, who knows? (no one on this thread).

croyde

25,080 posts

249 months

Saturday 23rd August
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Odd that there was no communication from the pilots.

rallye101

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216 months

Saturday 23rd August
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croyde said:
Odd that there was no communication from the pilots.
Busy flying the plane, clear air turbulence I'm guessing

TopTrump

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Saturday 23rd August
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normalbloke said:
Did you have your seatbelt on?
Yes thank goodness as did everyone, including the stewards.

TopTrump

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Saturday 23rd August
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Sheepshanks said:
It did make a left turn over the North Sea about 30 mins out which is out of line with that flight’s usual track.

I’d say the pilots forgot where they going and had an “oh st” moment.
Surely though they could do the course correction gradually and with little to no height correction

TopTrump

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Saturday 23rd August
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ATG said:
OP, what "help" are you after? Sounds like you hit some turbulence and that triggered some understandable hysteria amongst the passengers and fired up your imagination. Could have been the wake of an aircraft ahead of you, could have been clear air turbulence, who knows? (no one on this thread).
Closure/ understanding I think. I am not able to really understand teh flight data or anything and my hope was a pilot or expert could offer some interpretation of events.

TopTrump

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Saturday 23rd August
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rallye101 said:
Busy flying the plane, clear air turbulence I'm guessing
But why afterwards, once settled pop the seatbelt sign on and offer the explanation as to what happened?



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