Turbulence is the irregular, sometimes violent motion of air that can jostle an aircraft, ranging from mild bumps to abrupt jolts. It is primarily caused by disturbances in the atmosphere, and can be ...

The death of a British man and injuries impacting dozens of other people aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence Tuesday highlighted the potential dangers of flying through ...

Video and passenger accounts have painted a picture of chaos aboard Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 after the passenger aircraft encountered what the airline called "sudden extreme turbulence." One ...

CBS News reported that a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam made an emergency landing at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday evening, after severe turbulence injured ...

A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam that was hit by serious turbulence Wednesday, sending 25 people on board to hospitals and forcing the flight to divert to Minnesota, ...

The skies can be clear, blue, and tranquil. "And all of a sudden, boom, you hit it," Dan Bubb, a former airline pilot and now an aviation historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told ...

Turbulence is a challenging weather phenomenon that can frighten even the most frequent of flyers. And while modern commercial airliners are fully equipped to withstand all types of turbulence and are ...

Research shows that airplane turbulence could be increasing because of climate change and become three times as common by 2050 to 2080. There have been several cases of severe turbulence in recent ...