After a few great days of vacation in my beloved Croatia just touched base in Bangalore again and had to face on another front how much India is appreciating. It’s one of these small things that taken together form strong and undeniable indicators: My “shuttle flight” LH 754 and LH 755 between Frankfurt and Bangalore and return are no longer server by the Airbus A 340, but now by the biggest commercial passenger aircraft: Boing 747, the “jumbo jet”. At the same time, Lufthansa has also launched its 6th destination in India, flying three times a week from Frankfurt to Kolkata. Go, India, go!
However, for my premier on this plane yesterday, we faced a really heavy clear air turbulence (CAT) south of Mumbai which I had never experienced to such an extent. It came from nothing, that’s how these CAT are, started to shake the plane heavily, then the nose dropped and we lost some 300 feet of altitude within seconds as I could trace from the onboard flight information system. A young woman sitting right of me started to cry, I tried to calm her down by saying: “It feels shitty, but it’s not dangerous.” Somehow I did not sound convincing. After 15 seconds everything was over, the plane went smoothly again, and the pilot spoke to the passengers saying: “Hope nothing happened to you. This turbulence for us also came by surprise, there was nothing on our radar” No, nothing happened. All good, all safe, all alive.
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