The in-flight announcement to fasten your seat belts due to turbulence can unsettle even the most seasoned flyers. After all, flying inside a rocking vessel thousands of feet above the ground is ...

Different types of air turbulence present unique challenges for detection and avoidance. The most dangerous type occurs in clear skies and is invisible to radar, Severe turbulence forced Delta Flight ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...

Passengers on a flight to France got tossed around in the air over the weekend in a terrifying bout of turbulence captured on video. The turbulence was so strong it threw a flight attendant and her ...

A Rome-bound Wizz Air Airbus A321 was forced to make an emergency landing in Bologna, Italy, about 250 miles from its destination Thursday morning because of wild turbulence. The aircraft had taken ...

When the plane started shaking violently on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam in July, some passengers thought it was going to crash. The jet had hit severe turbulence, flinging people ...

Nobody likes to experience turbulence on their flight. When your airplane begins to shake violently or even has a sudden drop, it can be alarming. Some people have severe anxiety regarding airplane ...

Turbulence, the chaotic, irregular motion that causes the bumpiness we sometimes experience on an airplane, has intrigued scientists for centuries. At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...