Feet up flyers


Turbulence hurts aside from making flying scary.
The United States' National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center tweeted on Wednesday about a small plane telling it that severe turbulence nearly caused the aircraft to flip over, according to Newsweek.
The plane was 3,000 feet above the eastern Indiana border at around 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time in the US when it encountered the turbulence, NWS AWC said.
No one was reported hurt during the bumpy flight.
Scarier than turbulence was what happened to a Jet2 flight bound from Birmingham, the United Kingdom to Antalya, Turkey last 23 August. That flight reportedly made an emergency landing in Greece due to a medical emergency affecting one of its crew.
Some of the passengers would have felt nervous if not frightened upon learning that the pilot fainted while the plane was at 30,000 feet.
The airline had to send a replacement pilot for Flight LS1239 to Thessaloniki Airport, delaying passengers for eight hours, MoneyControl reported.
Business-class passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 2038 shrieked and pulled their feet up off the floor upon arrival at Newark Liberty international airport from Tampa, Florida on 17 October.
Airport animal-control officers and Port Authority police officers were at the gate when the plane arrived, and removed the garter snake that scared the passengers, Port Authority spokesperson Cheryl Ann Albiez said by email, according to The Guardian.
Flight UA-2038 resumed flying to Fort Myers after the stowaway snake was removed, according to Travelradar.aero.