Dream - The aviation world is once again in mourning. Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore experienced severe turbulence, resulting in the death of a passenger and dozens of injuries. The Boeing 777-300ER aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, local time.

Turbulence is a sudden disturbance in the speed of airflow, often caused by unstable weather conditions. This can occur when an aircraft crosses through air currents at varying speeds. According to the turbulence prediction website Turbli, there were 150 thousand flight routes that experienced severe turbulence in 2023.

As reported by independent.co.uk, there are six other domestic flight routes in Japan and China. Where four routes take off or land in Lanzhou, Chengdu, and Xianyang. Meanwhile, the two routes with the worst turbulence in Europe are the Milan to Geneva flights. While Milan to Zurich is ranked tenth.

Founder of Turbli, Ignacio Gallego Marcos explained that routes over the Andes or Alps mountains are ranked at the top due to the high waves above these mountains. Meanwhile, routes in Japan and China are turbulent due to high jet stream activity. The Met Office defines jet stream as strong winds blowing from west to east, around five to seven miles above the Earth's surface.