A flight from KUL to SYD, where the seatbelt sign was on from pretty much the time we crossed the Australian coast over northern WA until Sydney (a good four or five hours) - about a third of that time also had the flight attendants in their seats.

No huge drops or anything, but it just seemed never ending and as is typical of many Asian airlines, the flight crew basically said nothing about it the whole time.

One of the web sites I use is
www.fltplan.com

Apologies for the confusion. I meant 350K miles which is fairly amateur for some on here but still enough to have a fairly good sample.

It was choppy through much of the flight but violent drops probably no more than about 5 minutes or so although it seemed much longer at the time.

Fortunately all of the FA's had been buckled up when it happened. They hadn't secured one of the carts in the rear galley though which is what caused it to go flying.

The aviationweather.gov site has a wealth of information on flight planning. It's hard to know if a particular PIREP was reported by your flight but by cross referencing with FlightAware you can usually come up with a pretty good idea.

i've been on a bunch of bouncy flights....the most violent have been on private planes....

on a friends cessna twin, we did a 1k ft drop going around a storm, but it was smooth, not violent at the bottom. no damage....

on a king air, same conditions, just passed out drinks, and there was a violent snap [not a roll] and drop w/ stuff going every where....1 tray table broke & a few glasses....

For me it was an AF flight from CDG to TLV, AF-2220 I think, a few years back, I was traveling with my two younger brothers, mother and father and basically my father is a bit of a white knuckle flier even though he's flown loads of times and is far more savy than the average non FF, anyways, I digress..

So we take off from CDG and for the first 25 minutes of so it's smooth, then we hit some light turbulence but not enough to stop service, dinner service wraps up and I swear to you as soon as the last meal tray was stowed the captain came on the horn and ordered everyone to take their seats because we were in for a bit of a roller coaster, well let me tell you, yes we were! most of the time it was on the strong side of strong turbulence, then over greece we encountered a good 5 or 6 minutes of severe turbulence.

Needless to say plenty of children were crying and the weaker stomached passengers were using the sick bags..

Oh, remember how I mentioned my father is a bit of a white knuckler? ya, well, he ordered a tripple scotch after that adventure...

You know it's bumpy in the sky when you see most of the cabin reach up to open their individual air vents...

I was on a pretty bumpy one a few years back heading home from a conference in Palm Springs. It wouldn't have been quite so bad had the woman sitting behind me not become completely hysterical, terrorizing everyone around her with her screaming and crying.

The flight attendant was terrific - holding her hand, engaging her in conversation, keeping her from running up and down the aisles shrieking.

I kept my eyes on the business people who looked like they were frequent travelers. I figured as long as Road Warrior Guy two rows ahead of me stayed buried in his newspaper I had nothing to worry about.

Thankfully I haven't had anything as bad as the OP but on one flight from OMA to PHX it was constant mild to moderate turbulence from about 20 minutes after takeoff until we seemingly slammed into the runway in PHX. So far it's been the only flight I've had where I casually glanced in the seat pocket to make sure there was a barf bag in it while reaching for a magazine. Thankfully we landed before the need for one arose but if the flight had been another 15-20 minutes it may have been another story.

Sounds like a similar line of storms, Tuesday out of Houston.

Five injured by severe turbulence:

I've hit some pretty good bumps, but nothing that sounds like this. (2.5MM total)

The PIREP looks like it was reported as Severe. If carts hitting the ceiling are Severe, what does it take to get to Extreme? In a couple years of monitoring, I've only seen the solid red triangle of Extreme once at PIREPS

Anytime I flew over Japan.

For me, the most bumpy landing was also at YYC. More precisely, it was an attempted landing because the flight was then diverted to YEG.

Worst one for me was a few years ago, flying from Bagram to Bahrain as a jumpseat passenger in the cockpit of a 727.

It was CAT of a particularly nasty nature, associated with the jetstreams that control the Sub-continent monsoons. What it basically means is you're flying along in clear blue skies and then, without warning, it hits you. We got hit pretty hard, with the FE being flung forward and banging his head against the panel. I headbutted the skipper, and all of us except the FO had a second look at our breakfast.

But once we'd cleared it, the main worry was actually the cargo down the back and I was dispatched to have a look-see. Luckily we were mainly carrying empty pallets and containers, but one pallet loaded to about 1.5 meters in height and weighing around 1000 kg, had seen the cargo-net detaching on 2 out of 4 sides, with some of the cargo spilling out. Got it fixed and went back to the cockpit to report cabin secure.

Anyway, the old girl of course stood up to the task like a champ and got us all safely back on terra firma. An inspection didn't reveal any stress damage at all, and she's still flying with us to this day.

I went with the crew to the Sheraton hotel. More precisely, to the bar. Where we stayed for a not inconsiderable amount of time, some of us having to be physically carried to our rooms by the staff. 2 days later, we flew again :)

Hard to pick, there have been plenty, but 2 come to mind.

AA, ORD-YYZ way back in 1994, on an MD-80. Thankfully a rather short flight, but the turbulence was so bad that like your flight objects were hitting the ceiling and people were screaming, sick etc. The plane was literally making creaking and squealing noises.

WN, HOU-PHX, 2008. Severe turbulence in a giant swath on the map between Pensacola and Phoenix, low latitude winter jet stream. The tubulence was not as violent but it was still pretty awful, and it went on and on and on. The normal HOU-PHX run is about 2 hours, this streched into 3.5 due to flying into a ridiculous headwind and not managing to crack 325kts. From 40k ft to almost ground level it was the same story. People getting sick, etc.

LH, YYZ-FRA 1998 on a 747...the turbulence was only moderate, but it went on ceaselessly for 7 hours. Even moderate turbulence can turn into barf-o-rama when it goes on long enough.

There's an app called "TURBULATE" that shows your flight path and the line changes colors based on actual pilot reports and aviation forecasts so you can see what your flights gonna be like. It kinda reminds me of the traffic feature in "Google Maps." You just put in your flight number and it brings it up. What's kinda cool is if you get online inflight you can actually make reports too and add data to the system so maybe pilots could see to find smoother rides for us. Pretty neat. It looks like its just available for iPad 2 and higher right now. Anyone else use this? It's free. Here's a link to the app...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/turbu...551535628?mt=8





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Late 1980s or early 1990s, short flight from PUW to GEG on a turbo prop. Only time I ever threw up on a plane, along with most of the passengers, the FA, and one of the pilots. The pilot emerged after the flight, apologized and said it was the worst turbulence he had ever experienced.

If we weren't all so sick, we would have applauded his handling the plane.