“We were flying from SFO to LAX and had just begun or descent and all of a sudden the plane had the most violent turbulence I had ever experienced. It wasn’t the kind where the plane suddenly dropped, which is the kind I’m used to. It threw the plane to the left and knocked it almost completely perpendicular to its original position. My drink had just been picked up thank goodness and this big dude grabbed the arm of one of the flight attendants collecting trash to keep her from getting hurt I later found out. Everyone screamed. A few minutes later the pilot came on to explain we had accidentally been caught in wake turbulence from a bigger airplane. Wake turbulence has since really freaked me out.”
Terrifying experiences that Airline personnel have experienced
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Via Wikipedia