You Would Have Done Well to Fasten Your Seatbelt During These Flights

Turbulence, bumps, wind… Sometimes travelling by plane isn’t always such a cakewalk and these flights where passengers had to quickly fasten their seatbelts is proof of just that. We can only imagine how scared they must have been!

You Would Have Done Well to Fasten Your Seatbelt During These Flights
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You Would Have Done Well to Fasten Your Seatbelt During These Flights

Being a pilot isn’t for everyone! Pilots have to undergo a lot of extensive training in order to accomplish the very important mission they have undertaken, especially since they often have several hundreds of passengers on board their flights.

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Bad weather conditions

However, sometimes the weather doesn’t always cooperate which can make a pilot’s job rather complicated. The video above shows several clips of some rather shaky takeoffs and landings caused by bad weather. We have to admit, sometimes we do wonder how they managed it since the footage makes it look like it would have been so complicated! We’ll let you make your own judgements..

Harrowing footage

One thing is for sure, seeing these video clips, you can’t help but think of the poor passengers who are scared of flying and who must have been fearing for their lives! And we have to admit, even we would have been more than a little bit afraid.

And when there isn't a favourable wind, sometimes two planes can end up trying to land at the same time on the same runway, and that can cause yet another problem! It seems there are still a lot of reasons to be afraid of flying! Are you?

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