How much Turbulence can a Boeing 777-300ER take?

[Shmossy]

Holy shit, those clouds are just amazing. Blows my mind.

[BeemerTwelve]

BOAC flight 911 disintegrated in mid-air due to turbulence. Many passengers and crew members have suffered serious or fatal injuries due to turbulence. Either way just keep your seat belt on at all times sometimes not even the pilot knows what lays ahead.

[RichardEllisxyz]

@wokoandlawz "I'm a Boeing engineer and we didn't design the wing....." Watch some Discovery channel once & a while. They test the wings to destruction by bending them till they break...the wingtips are almost vertical before they break. They can bob up and down a dozen feet easily before being damaged....but thirty feet, out of sight, or more before they "break".

[belfedhalhamza]

Shush let me watch the vid !!!!!!

[enterfds100]

it's not a turbulence some dust is trapped in the engine causing it to shake a bit

[WhiteKestrell]

Wing flex is normal. If you ever see the wings forming some sort of a semi-circle then you can start worrying lol. The fuselage would break into pieces long before the wings fly off... Nice view of a wind shear through that window at 0:20 ;-)

[MrRandomppl]

any how i always feel safer in a 777

[kaxis26]

Boeing actually tested this theory and sacrificed a full built wing and spar assembly. They pushed a wing tip up and down to see how much fatigue it would go through. It was a lotttttt.

The only way to have broken the wing structure was pushing the wing tip higher than the rudder or vertical stab. This would never happen in any kind of turbulence though.

[SlamDuncDrummer]

I never even saw the wings move. If you think this is turbulence, come cruise around with me in my 337 in AZ or CO in the mid-summer.

[imzoyo]

Very nice view of anvil cloud and tropopause, typical thunderstorm production factory!

[apoure25]

My very scientific and highly researched answer: A lot.

[DROPPERSPRODUCTION]

I promise you, it can take much more turbulence than that!

[rianhautier]

just watch the nice clouds!

[sebastijanBelcic]

if u really want to know how much turbulence can a B777 can take look at the wing test type boeing 777 wing test it is impressive u will realize that turbulence cannot damage a plane or at least a 777

[sebastijanBelcic]

If u really want to see how much turbulence can a B777 can take look at boeing 777 wing test is the bending wing test it is impressive and u will realize that turbulence will never damage a plane or at least a 777

[MrGenderbender]

Turbulence has never brought an aircraft of any kind down, calm yourself....

[doc7austin]

@MrGenderbender: what about Air France AF 447 Rio-Paris? Turbulence was a major contributor to the crash.

[prussell890]

@doc7austin nope, turbulance had nothing to do with that. The peto tubes got blocked with supe cooled water which prevented an accurate air speed reading which resulted in two major stalls. No aircraft has crashed as a result of turbulance.

[doc7austin]

@prussell890 Yes, the pitot tubes; They failed because the plane entered a turbulent storm system with very high clouds over the tropics with supercooled water; I assume the crash could have been avoided if the pilot took a larger detour around these turbulent storms; I've flown around this area quite often, it was usually a constant left and right turns to navigate around those clouds; Turbulence made the matter worse, because (I assume) it limited the situational awareness

[bipappag]

@doc7austin With respect, the pilot went to take a nap and left a far inexperienced pilot in control. Google for the article with all of the black box information. Before the plane crashed all of the pitot tubes were working correctly. The pilot continued to pitch the nose up while in a stall.

[prussell890]

@doc7austin ok let me get something clear, I understand what your saying but turbulance DID NOT have anything to do with the incident. modern aircraft can withstand 100+mph winds, they could even fly through a hurricane and survive. The plane stalled due to airspeed failure. If the aircraft had its peto tubes replaced, the crash WOULD NOT of happened I assure you.

[p3rs0n42]

@doc7austin Yeah, but it wasn't the turbulence that blocked the pitot tubes...

Turbulence didn't damage them, they were blocked by (as Prussell says) supercooled water.

Turbulence or not, the plane was done for

[RohanKrishnakumarPro]

@doc7austin Pruseel890 is correct. My dad is a pilot and was a pilot for Air France one day himself.

[SlamDuncDrummer]

@doc7austin - the situation could have been made better by a better pitot tube heat design. Airbus has had ongoing problems with their pitot tubes freezing and it caused the crash. They have now been issued an AD to correct the problem.

[MrGenderbender]

@doc7austin Still wrong. Reports suggest that faulty readings were given from formation of ice inside the pitot tubes, depriving the airspeed sensors of forward-facing air pressure. Autopilot being disengaged and the pilot pulling the nose despite stall warnings causing a fatal loss in speed and a rapid decent. These pilots were not specifically trained in manual recovery of a stall at high altitude

[SuperApparition]

@doc7austin I think you'll find you're both incorrect. The Air France AF 447 flight is believed to have crashed because peto tubes were blocked with cooled water which prevented an accurate air speed reading. This resulted in two very serious stalls.

[edjurajuria]

@doc7austin that crash was produced by a human mistake.. that've been declared by airfrance.

[ollo1982]

Msg 3. The very last error message was received 04.14 and told me about the aircraft's vertical speed. A total of 24 error messages were sent from the plane.

[ollo1982]

@prussell890 Msg 3. The very last error message was received 04.14 and told me about the aircraft's vertical speed. A total of 24 error messages were sent from the plane.

[ollo1982]

@prussell890 Msg 2. Between 4:11 and 4:13 are several error messages that the ISIS, the secondary information system, and ADIRU, aircraft navigation systems, was out of drift.04.13 comes the error messages from the systems PRIM1 and SEC1, which is supposed to be the aircraft's primary and secondary control systems shall enter into force if the failure occurs in the aircraft's primary control systems.

[ollo1982]

@prussell890 Msg 1. 03.51:The plane passing the first uværsområdet.03.59:The plane passed probably a storm area with strong turbulens.04.05:The aircraft passed the third storm area, this is the worst of all, according to data from Weather Graphics.04.10:Air France begins to receive more automatic messages that indicate failure of the aircraft. The first error message says that the plane's autopilot was turned off, and with the technical means to prevent dangerous movements removed.

[nuo9558]

@prussell890 If you consider microbursts as a type of turbulence, then you'll have a whole list of fatal crashes related to this, Delta Air Lines Flight 191 for example.

[thomasboss01]

@prussell890

I would presume in the very early days of flying there would of had to be a crash caused by strong turbulence....these days though airplanes are designed to fly easily through the worst of the worst...:)

[prussell890]

@doc7austin nope, turbulance had nothing to do with that. The peto tubes got blocked with super cooled water which prevented an accurate air speed reading which resulted in two major stalls. No aircraft has crashed as a result of turbulance.

[ManfredZaturek]

@doc7austin

Sorry, you're wrong. That aircraft stalled. The investigation board concluded that Air France crews were not properly trained for some certain situations, blockage of the Pitot tubes included.

[A3xx1978]

Look up Boac Flight 911, happened a long time ago due to CAT - Modern aircraft are safe even in Heavy turbulence but flying too close to a TS or in one is asking for trouble.

[brunodoriane]

@doc7austin no ! high speed desintegrate the plan

[razoto1994]

@doc7austin no the turbulence, but the altimether and the speed indicator

don't forget that they were flying in a cummulus-nibus

[vecuccio]

@MrGenderbender BOAC Flight 911 (look on Wikipedia).

[swmdal]

@MrGenderbender In March 1966, severe clear-air turbulence near Mt. Fuji, Japan, caused structural failure and an in-flight breakup of BOAC flight 911, a Boeing 707-436. A Navy fighter in the same area experienced g-forces ranging from +9 to -4. Yes, it is very rare, but not unknown.

[BiggerThinking1]

@MrGenderbender aIR fRANCE A FEW YEARS AGO - SOUTH AMERICA TO eUROPE

[alexorangesailor]

@MrGenderbender In actual fact i think you will find turbulance has caused at least 1 aircraft that i know about to crash, the boac 707 over mount fuji when it encountered clear air turbulance and broke apart midair.

[MollieMcBullets]

@MrGenderbender Not a modern aircraft (other than the airfrance airbus perhaps) but two jets have been downed, one over the bay of begal in the 60's(?) or thereabouts.

[golden290]

@MrGenderbender I'm sorry, but that's not true.

[nyflyer11787]

@MrGenderbender you are wrong sir. BOAC flight 911 was destroyed by turbulence.

[celderian]

@MrGenderbender

That is not entirely true. Look up BOAC 911. Thankfully, with the huge advances we made with navigation instruments, no one should ever find himself in the situation they encountered.

[kenpalmer1965]

It looked like this plane was getting chopped around quite a bit,especially when you see the footage of the cabin. I would have been a bit nervous indeed because I hate turbulence even though I love flying. Cool video with some fabulous pictures of those storm clouds.

[wokoandlawz]

A man and a woman are sitting next to each other on a trans-atlantic flight in a Boeing 747-400. The aircraft encounters severe turbulence and the man, looking out the window at the wing bouncing around, gradually looks more and more worried.

The woman, noticing, says "Don't worry, I'm a flight attendant and this is perfectly normal."

He replies "Miss, I'm a Boeing engineer and we didn't design the wing to do what it's doing right now."

[voiceofreason2008]

i had much more turbulence going to mexico in 2005

turned out it was the start of what was hurricane wilma

trust me the turbulence was bad but i expect theres been worse

[MaisieIsSoCrazy]

Your moving the camera :)

[theRealBuRRito]

I think, the wings of a B777 can deflect over 7 meters.

[gravyboythebuttplug]

That's nothing...planes shake more when they're loading baggage at the gate.

[ghempel100]

normal turbulence level for normal fly by on cumulus nimbus

[fiswe1]

only in America:)wake upp and go to war against north korea;)

i want to see that day americans screaming eagels jump to N korea:)

[potdoggy123]

lol scary

[TefkrosAirliner]

Boeing 777 - 300 ER is the strongest plane ever flighted, it can take 15 times stronger turbulence than these.

[JHulse29]

I experience more turbulence driving

[antimatter92]

wow thats beautiful

[KawasakiKid05]

theres tv moniters in front of you and you're worried about the turbulence?

[nef7345]

if the plane is light they will have more turbulence

[nef7345]

boeing 777 is light so they have more tubulence

[nef7345]

boeing 777 is lite

[lego473]

you where just moving the camera

[TheYk1000]

@lego473 then why are the seatbelt signs on at such a high altitude??? (also applies to blackops777)

[TheYk1000]

@lego473 then why are the seatbelt signs on at such a high altitude??? (also applies to blackops777) COS IT WAS TURBULENCE, but maybe a bit light...

[outpapa]

Nice video

[rubberlad71]

try half an hour of roller coaster over russia on the way to australia last month . try and fly a bit more matey

[M5and3man]

I have flown in a 777-300ER in much worse turbulence then that.

[FrisoLustig]

This is quite ok. Not that heavy (at least, from what we can see), all planes can handle much more. The clouds are stunning though! AF447 was a terrible and a combination of a lot of factors to cause the crash, it basically has not much to do with the turbulence.

[davideckhoff1]

Aircraft are meant to be somewhat flexible, if they weren't the friction and bending would snap a plane in half.

[specOpsMaStEr89]

that cloud looks legit!~

[moonshineman1]

At 00:20 you can see the "anvil" shape top to this beautiful cumulonimbus cloud on the left... Simply amazing to see it from 35k+ feet altitude!!! Nice video

[Lworld63]

I remember flying one of these for the first time, it was Cathay Pacific LAX-HKG, and it was literally brand new; it was assembled no more than two weeks before I flew on it, and the plane is still my favorite, and it never ceases to amaze me, from the engines to the fuselage. this is the true king of the sky!

[waislandres]

You should see the destructive testing they do at Boeing, you would relax after seeing how much the 737 can take. It is said that passengers would be beat up so badly they would be nearly unconscious or unconscious, before the wing would fail.

[averredude101]

@lucy5122 lucky...

[richieisland]

The plane is not even moving.

[CJCA915]

They test those wing designs in far more strenuous conditions than they'll ever likely encounter in real life...

[Neutrinoghost]

Awesome, Cumulonimbus with an anvil and some TCU's, nice to see them from above for a change.

[zapwatt]

I built that plane. You're welcome

[christianharris936]

LOL all of u pilots r so snobby. I'm always scared during turbulence. Imagine flying 30,000 ft in the air in a heap off metal that has the fucking nerve to be shaking....

[jwm239]

...if I see clouds like that while flying, I will dive to land and run, not walk, my hang glider to the barn.

[Johnno455]

Now that is a TCU!

[supbro08]

you think that turbulence try flying in a thunderstorm it was so bad that we had to land at a other airport

[SingaporeAirlines777]

if you want really heavy turbulence, you have to flight from munich to singapore. over afgahnistan they are really hard. at least the are 4 hours at a time

[davie0123]

I wonder why I always have turbulence over Romania!?

[Thomas22may]

Man, I wish MS flight simulator could look like this, it would be fantastic!!! Very nice video by the way, great quality.

[InfiniteAkasa]

Lol. You clearly haven't seen the testing video of wings upraised so that the wingtips are nearly touching. That would give you great confidence in modern airliners, mate.

[julionica]

Please! The 777 is like the Mercedes Benz of airplanes (or BMW for those offended lol)

[GOapeshit14]

that cloud looks like a towering cumulus!

[ejdf870]

Can an airliner fly over the highest clouds?

[dacorsua]

at 0:43 there is a tiny wing flex... so tiny... I watched a documentary about the 777 and they flexed the wind 25 degrees above the horizontal line... the one you show looks more like half a degree or even one degree the most. Imagine 25 degrees, that would be like a bird flying literally... so after that documentary, I feel more comfortable during turbulence because the most severe turbulence you ever experienced, these planes were built to withstand 20 to 30x worse that that...

cheers

[FSEVENMAN]

The Boeing can take more turbulence than any passenger.

[TheEmerald524]

ha 1st class suckes

[XxNiMr0D7000xX]

@TheEmerald524 on emirates it doesnt buddy... trust thats why we make more money than most airlines ;)

[TheEmerald524]

ha 1st class

[FlightsimmerFMO]

I think a plane can handel the 150% of that, what you can expect on earth :)

[johnairlines8]

Flight 447 was not a storm. It was a f*cking hurricane!

[LunarHalo50]

beautiful pics and videos of clouds

[phukpasswords]

That wing can flex 3 ft in either direction! Thanks for the beautiful vid!

[Nicciluvable]

its beautiful

[compoundevolution]

when do th  wings snap off?

[soyounoat]

You should see how far those same wings bent before breaking in the test rig at the Everett Plant. The movement in this video is almost nothing.

[StuieMaaate]

if u wanna know what turbulance is', fly Cubana airlines

[SKYGUY03]

Why is it you hate thunderstorms again?

My mum used to be a stewardess. And believe me she knows what tough turbulence is.

[kazim786]

The 777 is truely beautiful aircraft

[HamburgAirport]

a lot.

[SirPlankton]

I LOVE cumulonimbus clouds, so pretty but oh so deadly (for GA aircraft that is) can't wait to finally sit in front of a jumbo....

[zoup2nutz]

That is a beautiful looking wing! (Real talk) its so sleak and sexy.

[zoup2nutz]

That is a beautiful looking wing! (Real talk)

[FranConcept]

b777 wings can Flex 7 meters up and 7 meters down

[DiamondPilotDan]

@boogie8ball pilots always dodge thunderstorms, even that high up.

"(identification) request a deviation from course to avoid weather" and usually atc will be able to see the weather and move u around it. (even In those big jets). Sometimes atc will vector you around it before you even request it.

Most clouds can safely be flow through, just not thunderstorms and storm systems on squall lines etc.

[HeathrowSpottingHD]

Wouldn't worry at all. Just some small thunderstorms. Safest in a b777!

[Terryzarzoff]

Turbulence aside.. that is an impressive cloud stack.

[barthoedemaker]

And that's why we had Concorde :(

[boobgun222]

if it was a cargo plane it would fly through. the only reason they avoid turbulence at all is because passengers dont like it

[Nihsel101]

i think you were flying over mountains but thats not that bad of turbulence. the worst one is going through a storm with windshear.

[lakewood85]

Turbulence takes the monotony out of flying. Especially on the long boring flights.

[doc7austin]

Pls observe my text:

These were only light to moderate chops while flying near a thunderstorm; I know the Boeing 777-300ER can take much turbulence than that.

[marioslicer8]

that probably is the smallest 777

[kido3002]

Mushroom cloud!

[lovesskiingpow]

wings are the strongest part of the aircraft

[nbmanno]

looks like a mushroom cloud O.o

[masm60]

The wing will flex over 20 feet before breaking. Search for 777 wing test and watch the wing failure test.

[MrFeelingsofly]

UMMMMMMMM a 787 wings can bend 25-35 feet so ya... and aim at the wing actually

[lunchbag08]

a lot more than that....

[flyzapva]

WAY more than that..

[Fummb1es]

A man and a woman are sitting next to each other on a trans-atlantic flight in a Boeing 747-400. The aircraft encounters severe turbulence and the man, looking out the window at the wing bouncing around, gradually looks more and more worried.

The woman, noticing, says "Don't worry, I'm a flight attendant and this is perfectly normal."

He replies "Miss, I'm a Boeing engineer and we didn't design the wing to do what it's doing right now."

[prohelipilot1]

We would love to warch the wing flex but in order for us to do that you needed to point the camera at the wing

[zoeyjusko]

I actually like a little turbulence. If it's steady and constant and just a little bumpy it puts me to sleep. It feels good. If it gets out of hand then it's not fun anymore.

[MrMajidaxel]

Why do i get an urge to walk off a wing and jump into a cloud?

[boogie8ball]

clearly when you fly near large cumulonibus its going to get a little bumpy,

when you drive a car you try to avoid potholes,surely pilots cant steer around a cloud

[tigersfanatic98]

holy crap, wat a beast of a cloud

[free2rhyme29100]

Thats one sexyy ass airplane wing.

[dtiydr]

If that extreme turbulence would have been only a tad bit more the wings would have been ripped of, no doubt...

[lexany]

Wings are made to flex. You don't want a rigid wing because it would result in metal fatigue. A DC-8s wingtip can flex up to 16' safely...the pax would black out before it ever broke. Nice video - cool scenery!

[NaughtyLover92]

Jesus. Where you going to space?? That plane is flying way too high!

[qtr7]

over Romania ..!!!!!!

I experienced bad turbulence while flying over Romania ..

Why does it get choppy over Romania ..?

Any logical answers ..!!?

[tninbredretard]

@qtr7 you were probally over Transylvania

[wokoandlawz]

A man and a woman are sitting next to each other on a trans-atlantic flight in a Boeing 747-400. The aircraft encounters severe turbulence and the man, looking out the window at the wing bouncing around, gradually looks more and more worried.

The woman, noticing, says "Don't worry, I'm a flight attendant and this is perfectly normal."

He replies "Miss, I'm a Boeing engineer and we didn't design the wing to do what it's doing right now."

[Fummb1es]

@wokoandlawz rofl XD

[rrip1]

A 777 can take more turbulence than it will ever encounter.

[bentleymees]

that is a beautiful cloud.

[N476HA]

@bentleymees true, but.. i wouldn't want to fly into it...

[MrBram1920]

Singapore Airlines?

[6V92TA]

if that wing didnt flew, id be scared.......

[RichardEllisxyz]

@doc7austin Find the videos of Boeings test to destruction of the wings of the 757....the wing is almost bent up so that the tip of the wing is nearly vertical....before it breaks. I would guess the wingtip could flex up & down some 25-30 feet before being damaged...the testing vids are truely UN-REAL.

[rrip1]

@RichardEllisxyz The wing flexes up so far before it breaks that it would lose lift before it broke. I was lucky enough to see in person the breaking of the 777 wing, from the other side of the aisle. Very loud to say the least

[Andrewawesome123]

@rrip1

In flight -_- or testing?

[joedaviesuk1]

@blackops777 May not be much, but if you look of at the cloud right next to the aircraft is cumlonimbus, you can see the anvvil at 0:24 and you start feeling really heavt turbulence within about 10nm of the cloud. Guess it may not be much in the video but I guess of camera it could have been pretty bad.

[Taipei127]

This plane is intense.

[abhishek6561397]

de i had something more than ths wen i travelled to dubai from chennai over the arabian sea.............

[Dominoes911]

@beCareffour Business class is always in front of the wing.

[jatkinson0294]

was this a take off from manchester?

[ek433]

It's frustrating that the camera doesn't really pick up the flexing very well because the camera itself is moving so much! Happens to me all the time!! Still an interesting video, cheers.

[doc7austin]

I only fly Economy Class

[swatsticker]

@doc7austin why? :(

[beCareffour]

bussines class?