I got the correct flight number this time:

BY 386B

Has anyone any more information on this incident? Just curious to
know, rather than speculate as to the cause. Don't they have radar
(doppler) on aircraft?

Thanks

Keith (Southend)

http:/www.southendweather.net

"Les & Claire" wrote in message ...
......... plus, any acceleration downwards over 32ft per sec/per sec would
have given you negative G and pinned you to the roof. Weightlessness denotes
falling freely in a gravity field. You were accelerating downwards ( if it
was exactly zero g ) at a rate of 32 feet per sec/ per sec. at the end of
ten seconds this would result in a velocity of 320 ft per second or a little
over 218 MPH ( ignoring drag ) unless my schooldays maths are totally up the
creek ( always a possibility!)

Les


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"Keith Southend 2" wrote in message
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A colleague at work on his return from Greece this Monday 8th
September 2003 described to me a quite scary event during his
flight.

He was flying with Britannia Airways, flight number BY368(we think),
out of Zakynos (Zante) . It was still dark and one hour into the
flight the aircraft suddenly turned to the left and dropped rapidly
for what seemed a few minutes. The captain or crew made no comment as
to what the problem was, but a number of people said they wouldn't fly
again.

I'll put my (retired) pilot's hat on!

It is usually, but not always possible to avoid the worst of the
turbulence.

I have little doubt that this second hand story has become embellished in
the telling
(dropped....for a few minutes!)

Nevertheless, the captain should have made some comment, preferably before
the event and certainly afterwards. It probably meant absolutely nothing
to
the flight crew, but I always remembered that the passengers paid my
wages.
So even if their fears were a little unreasonable (in my opinion) I would
always reassure them that this was nothing to worry about, the aircraft is
designed for this level of turbulence (even if my coffee cup wasn't) etc.
I
never received a single complaint about not keeping them informed about
the
weather. I did receive complaints from the punters about other things (eg
why their baggage had gone missing, or why we were late again)

Jack