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Boeing Guy · 13-01-2012, 18:50

Jay, I've had a few.
In Africa, going down to the Congo, some of the worst thunderstorms in the world, what a night a 600 mile diversion.
The worst though was flying over Spain, I was a newish First Officer, we hit Severe Turbulance, our food trays were on the dashboard ( for want of a better word) and we lost breakfast over the windows!
The capt asked me to look at the wings, they were flapping around!! I was genuinely scared, he explained that the wing is designed o flex up and down, to around 30ft in either direction.
Kind of put my mind at rest

13-01-2012, 18:50	#13
Boeing Guy JFT96 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In the Sky, yeeeehawwwww Posts: 2,136 Blog Entries: 6 Liked: 273 times Rep Power: 24791	Re: Worlds scariest plane landings, channel 5 Jay, I've had a few. In Africa, going down to the Congo, some of the worst thunderstorms in the world, what a night a 600 mile diversion. The worst though was flying over Spain, I was a newish First Officer, we hit Severe Turbulance, our food trays were on the dashboard ( for want of a better word) and we lost breakfast over the windows! The capt asked me to look at the wings, they were flapping around!! I was genuinely scared, he explained that the wing is designed o flex up and down, to around 30ft in either direction. Kind of put my mind at rest __________________ "your mind will find a way to be unkind to you somehow. But all we really have is happening to us right now. Happiness is the road" Steve Hogarth, lead singer Marillion