Singapore Airlines Flight Flew Through Dangerous Zone That Pilots Fear: Report
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The Boeing 777 jet of Singapore Airlines had to make an emergency landing in Thailand on Tuesday after being hit by deadly turbulence.
A former pilot has said that the Singapore Airlines flight, which was caught in a severe turbulence leading to the death of one passenger, could have hit an area called the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ICZ). According to NASA Earth Observatory, it is a region that circles the Earth near the equator, where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern hemisphere come together. Due to the intense heat of the Sun and warm water of the equator in this region, the humidity content is high. Aided by the convergence of the trade winds, the buoyant air rises. As the air rises it expands and cools, releasing the accumulated moisture in an almost perpetual series of thunderstorms.
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Marco Chan, a former commercial pilot and lecturer in aviation at Buckinghamshire New University, said in such a scenario, pilots' options may have been limited.
