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Photos show mess on Air Canada flight after turbulence sends passenger meals flying around the cabin
Passengers on an Air Canada flight experienced turbulence on Friday that was severe enough to send their meals flying off tray tables and into the air, leaving the cabin of the aircraft looking like the scene of mid-air food fight.
According to a reddit post from Morrell Andrews, a few hours into the flight from Vancouver to Singapore, Flight AC19 hit “some major bumps and everything went flying (including a few people!).” Andrews said nobody was hurt, but his photos show food in the aisle and splattered all over the ceiling of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Air Canada told CBS News the flight encountered “some turbulence” about three hours after it left Vancouver on Oct. 11. The airline confirmed that none of the passengers or crew members were injured and the flight continued on to Singapore as scheduled.
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On the reddit thread, another passenger said they were “terrified” and had “never had turbulence like that before.”
“It felt like one of those roller coasters where you have several seconds of weightlessness,” another poster said on the forum, adding that they had to pick food from their hair. “The cabin was full of floating food! I had coffee dripping on me from the ceiling and was picking rice out of my hair afterwards.”
Courtesy of Morrell Andrews
Several severe turbulence incidents have made headlines in recent years, including in May when Singapore Airlines said a flight from Bangkok, Thailand had “encountered sudden extreme turbulence” on the way to London’s Heathrow Airport. One man died of a heart attack and dozens were injured.
Data from the online flight tracking organization FlightAware showed the Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 had dropped some 6,000 feet in only about five minutes during the incident. Thunderstorms were reported in the area.
In September 2023, a Jet Blue flight from Ecuador to Fort Lauderdale hit severe turbulence, sending eight passengers to the hospital.
“Severe weather increases chances of turbulence, and due to climate change, these kinds of incidents will only continue to grow,” Taylor Garland, a spokesperson for the Association of Flight Attendants, told CBS News in 2022.
A phenomena known as clear-air turbulence — which can’t be detected by radar — is increasing along with the more typical severe weather-related bumps in the air.
As the jet stream shifts and carbon dioxide emissions make the air warmer across the planet, there’s more wind shear at the elevations where commercial jets typically cruise. One 2023 study found that moderate clear-air turbulence had increased 37% between 1979-2020. Researchers found severe clear-air turbulence had increased 55% on one of the world’s most popular travel routes, over the North Atlantic, over the same time period.
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There were no injuries after a Southwest flight carrying passengers was struck by gunfire on the tarmac of Dallas Love Field Friday night, authorities said.
Southwest Airlines Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis when “a bullet apparently struck the right side of the aircraft under the flight deck,” a Southwest spokesperson told CBS News in a statement.
The airline said no one was hurt. A spokesperson for Dallas Love Field said in an email that the aircraft returned to its gate after sustaining damage from a “security incident” and the passengers deplaned. The runway was also temporarily closed, but has since reopened.
Dallas police confirmed the incident, saying that officers responded to reports of gunfire at 9:48 p.m. local time, arriving to find that the aircraft had been struck.
No further details were provided on the circumstances of the incident or what was the potential source of the gunfire. It’s unclear how many people were aboard the jet at the time, or how much damage the aircraft sustained.
In its own statement provided to CBS News, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the plane “was reportedly struck by gunfire near the cockpit.”
Dallas police are leading the investigation into the incident.
Earlier this week, gunfire amid ongoing gang violence struck three planes that were either landing or departing Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. The shootings prompted the FAA to issue a 30-day ban on U.S. airlines flying to Haiti.
Social media star Jake Paul defeated boxing legend Mike Tyson in a highly anticipated fight with an age difference of over three decades between the two contenders. The Friday night win for the YouTuber-turned-pro-boxer was streamed on Netflix from the home of the Dallas Cowboys in Texas.
Paul defeated Tyson by an unanimous decision after the two fighters went eight full rounds.
Fight night for the 58-year-old Tyson and 27-year-old Paul came following doubts over whether it would happen at all. The fight was originally scheduled for July, but was postponed after the former heavyweight champion experienced an ulcer flare-up on a plane in May.
A different kind of flare-up happened during the official weigh-in Thursday with Tyson slapping Paul in the face. Tyson later told the New York Post that Paul had stepped on his toe when the two were toe to toe onstage.
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What is Jake Paul’s fight record?
With the win, Paul’s record improved to 11-1.
Was Jake Paul predicted to win?
Oddsmakers had Paul as the slight favorite to win. Former heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua also went with Paul.
How much prize money does Jake Paul win?
Paul was expected to earn about $40 million from the fight, according to DraftKings Network and other online sources.
Promoters didn’t reveal the payouts ahead of the bout. Paul is a co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, which produced the fight.
Does Mike Tyson still get paid?
Tyson was expected to take home around $20 million for the fight, according to DraftKings and other online reports.
Tyson entered professional boxing in 1985 and became the youngest heavyweight champion in history a year later. After serving time for a rape conviction in the 1990s, Tyson won the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association titles.
He retired from boxing in 2005 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. He last fought in a 2020 exhibition match against former four-division world champ Roy Jones Jr.
“He like put on another 20 pounds from when I fought him, so he’s more bigger and he’s more dangerous because more size, more power, so it’s going to be a tough one for Jake to climb,” Jones told CBS News ahead of the fight.
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