Airline Employees Reveal All The Juicy Secrets You Need To Know About Traveling In The Air

Updrafts Are Scary

You might be surprised because updrafts are actually what you should worry about. “A plane flies into a massive updraft, which you can’t see on the radar at night, and it’s like hitting a giant speed bump at 500 miles an hour. It throws everything up in the air and then down very violently. That’s not the same as turbulence, which bounces everyone around for a while,” explains John Nance, who is an aviation safety analyst, and retired airline captain.