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anavette | 1 year ago

> Another passenger said the aircraft suddenly started "tilting up” and “shaking".

> "[...] very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop [...]"

Nose tipping up, followed by steep drop. Sounds like the plane stalled.

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t0mas88|1 year ago

No. Passengers often experience things as "a big drop" while no such thing happened.

In this case several news sites even claim it dropped 6000ft. But if you read the Avherald report (often a very good source) or look at the ADS-B data, you'll see they descended 6000ft in approximately 10 minutes. So that was just the crew deciding to get out of the turbulence by changing altitude in a normal way.

You don't stall a jet from turbulence unless you're far higher than the maximum allowed altitude or otherwise way outside normal flight parameters.