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World's 5 Most Turbulent Flight Routes
27 May 2024
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The recent turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight on its way from London to Singapore has put a spotlight on the world's most unstable air routes
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Recently, Turbli analysed 150,000 routes and showed the most turbulent journeys of 2023
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1.The most turbulent flight was the route from Santiago in Chile to Santa Cruz in Bolivia, according to the data
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Turbulence on the Santiago-Santa Cruz route is generated by winds from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean flowing almost perpendicular to the Andes
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2. Route between Almaty, in Kazakhstan, and the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, has been ranked second
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3. At the third place is the route between Lanzhou, the capital city of northwest China's Gansu and Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province
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4. Centrair to Sendai in Japan is ranked at fourth place. Notably, Japan has high levels of mountain- and ocean-induced turbulence
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5. Milan to Geneva is the most turbulent route in Europe and fifth-most turbulent in the world for 2023
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Around 65,000 flights encounter moderate turbulence every year, and about 5,500 encounter severe turbulence
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Experts say that mountainous regions tend to see greater turbulence, because of a disturbance in the airflow
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