A video that has become a woman's nerve -wracking experience with sudden turbulence during her very first flight on Tiktok.
The video posted by @Maanneri has collected 3.8 million views since it was shared on March 6th. It is displayed with a caption on the screen: “It is your first time in an airplane and this happens.” The film material, which was rotated from a window seat, first shows the aircraft, which flies smoothly under a light blue sky.
However, if the plane moves into a cloudy area, the scene changes quickly. The sky becomes gray and the plane trembles as it runs through turbulent air. The worrying moment is reinforced by the sounds of passengers that react in the background.
The video is accompanied by a caption from the poster, in which it says: “TB [throwback] When my soul left the earth + the panicked voices in the BG [background]. “
The viral video comes at a time when the safety of air travel is a growing public problem. A number of top -class aircraft accidents and aviation incidents in the past few months have fueled discussions about flying risk, even if industry experts emphasize that modern air trips are statistically safe.
According to studies, the fear of aviation is one of the most common phobias in the world. A 2021 study published in Limits in psychology found that between 10 and 40 percent of people in industrialized countries experience a certain level of fear of flying.
A separate study from 2019 in Aerospace medicine and human performance It found that turbulence, unknown noises and fears of terrorism are one of the top emissions for fear while fleeing.
While the viral video captures the worrying reality of sudden turbulence, industry statistics underline the general security of modern commercial flights.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) data underlines that commercial aviation is safer than ever. In his 2024 security report, Iata said that 2023 was the safest year for the industry.
“In the year, the slightest number of fatal accidents were planned without being planned to loss or fatal accidents planned passenger jets,” the report said. “In addition, 2023 had the lowest risk of death and all the accident rate ever recorded.”
According to Iata, there was only a fatal aircraft accident in 2023 worldwide, where a turboprop aircraft included 72 deaths. It is important that no IATA member airlines or IATA examinations for the operational security test have reported fatal incidents this year.
Many TikK-users sympathized with the experience in the virus clip and shared their own turbulence fears and fears in the first flight.
User @dxstiny.y asked: “Why is turbulence always crazy when airplanes go through clouds?”
Melissa noticed: “I hate turbulence” and wrote Rue: “I think I will never feel good on the plane.”
User @tys.les noted: “My 1st flight was 7 hours and like 4 hours of turbulence they took 30 minutes each, it was the worse flight ever.”
Newsweek has contacted the original poster for a comment via TikTok. This video was not verified independently.
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