New Zealand seizes black boxes from LATAM Boeing 787 after more than 50 injured during flight

And that's why you always wear your seat belt throughout a flight. If everyone seated on this flight was properly buckled up I'd bet the number of injured personnel would be much lower than 50.

No pilot plane can create voluntarily an air drop.

As USNinJapan2 stated, that's why one should get seated with seatbelt on as soon as one is not in need to walk in the alley.

I wonder if someone was in the toilet at that time ;(

It is not rocket science to utilise the seatbelt.

I think airlines should make the reason for wearing the seatbelt done up the whole flight more well-known. But they don't want to make people feel scared. So they just say "please keep it fastened" and leave it at that. But most people never consider it, they think "we've taken off and we're not landing yet, no seatbelt needed!". I always have mine on unless im going to the toilet.

New Zealand's Transport Accident Investigation Commission said on Tuesday it was seizing the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 after an incident that left more than 50 people injured.

Yes there should be other parties investigating other than the company as well

Absolutely terrifying. I was on a plane a few weeks ago that hit rough turbulence. Belt always done up when seated.

When I worked for an airline as a flight attendant in 2009, we overflew Turkey and we had such severe turbulences that I said to myself: Good Bye, that's it. Luckily the so called "Clear Air Turbulences" stopped shaking the airplane after 30 min. Not nice but survived.

LATAM is a very dodgy airline. Glad no one was seriously injured.

“seizing” the flight recorder. oh my.

good chance about half of the people injured will keep their seatbelt on next time.

Boeing has a history of neglecting passengers' safety on purpose, for the sake of money. Those who still fly with Boeing are nothing but foolish.

@/dev/random There was no such thing as turbulence. It was avoidable technical errors caused by human hands.

Always keep that life saver buckled bcz. you just never know what's out there.

Some times I wonder if the Bullet trains "Shikansen" in Japan should have seat belts too? I sit and watch these trains fly at these speeds with little kids and all ages just sitting with NO BELTS, this could be a disaster about to happen someday, but I pray it will NOT.

Philosopher's Stone

I know it's hard to be rational when you hate Boeing so much, but the control surfaces on an airliner like this physically can't produce the violent movement or sudden drop in altitude that would result in injuries to the passengers of this severity. Only naturally forming turbulence can cause an altitude drop severe and sudden enough to slam passengers into the ceiling of the cabin.

@USNinJapan2

It's not hatred. It's logic.

Boeing knowingly threatens the safety and security of millions of passengers. Countless previous accidents prove it. And they still don't take any serious measures to improve, because it costs money, and they save money wherever possible. Also, a Boeing whistleblower was assassinated by Boeing recently, which makes Boeing murders. By siding with Boeing and defending them, you turn yourself into a first degree murder as well. Ask JT to have your comment removed, otherwise you'll run into problems with the FBI.

Philosopher's Stone

It's not hatred. It's logic.

You're still wrong. It's not logic. It's physics.

I was once on a P-3 flying cross country from Memphis to California.

The plane captain came on and said “Make Sure You’re Belted in, We’re going to hit some rough air” no sooner did he finish talking, we hit an air pocket (of course I was belted in before he ever said this).

After we hit the bottom of the air pocket, he came back on and said: “In case you’re wondering, we just dropped 10,000’ in 9 seconds “….I loved every second of it, lol.

a couple of possibilities.

if momentary loss of electrical power occurs, the autopilot may disengage. the aircraft may return to a previous trim setting.

or the pilots could overreact control input to the out of trim condition after the autopilot disengages.

either way, wear you darn seatbelt if you're in your seat. unfortunately, flight attendants are always vulnerable.

Peter Neil

if momentary loss of electrical power occurs, the autopilot may disengage. the aircraft may return to a previous trim setting.

or the pilots could overreact control input to the out of trim condition after the autopilot disengages.

You can't intentionally make a wide-body airliner pull that many G's that instantaneously using its control surfaces. The pilot can't do it using control inputs and neither can the autopilot. It's not physically possible.