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Southwest flight to Chicago turns back after turbulence injures two flight attendants

WCVB reports on the return of flight 147 early this morning.

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On my recent flight from Orlando to Boston, we experienced moderate turbulence the entire way. One passenger had the audacity to ring the bell to ask the flight attendant for food and she flipped out and told him how dangerous it was for her to be standing up during turbulence. Made me happy to see her stand up for herself.

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Did she come over to his seat to tell him this? Or yell at him over the loudspeaker?

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Everybody needs to buckle up nice and snug, especially during turbulence. Except, of course, for that helpless baby in your lap!

We once had our baby seat at the gate and the person working there offered to "take care of it" for us. I thought she meant she was offering to install it in the plane seat. She was about to give it to a guy to take downstairs and stow in the luggage compartment before we stopped her. It never even occurred to her that our intention was to have our child safely secured in his seat.

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because if parents had to buy a separate seat for an infant in his or her protective seat, more families would opt to drive...which would place the infant at greater risk. Car crashes are, after all, much more frequent than plane crashes, especially once you rate risk using "fatalities per passenger mile."

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I don't think airlines have this policy because they think the child will be safer on a plane than in a car. That implies that none of us should really be buckled in on a plane because it's just so safe, so what's the point?

They allow it because there is no government regulation requiring all passengers to be safely buckled in. If American required it, people might book on United instead. It's a business reason. They know perfectly well the child is far safer buckled in that sitting on someone's lap. And they also know there is no way a person will be able to protect a baby during severe turbulence or in an accident.

If it makes sense to design aircraft seats to protect passengers in an accident, and if it makes sense for any passengers to be properly buckled in, then it makes sense for all passengers to be properly buckled in.

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Remember that we aren't talking about plane crashes, we're talking about turbulence - turbulence which is usually harmless to people who are strapped into a seat. I certainly haven't heard about many instances of mothers accidentally flinging their unsecured children into bulkheads during turbulence, but turbulence in general is a lot more common than a plane crash. It's one of those things that we take as a matter of course on any flight we board.

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Just wondering.

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Most child seats fit right into a standard aircraft seat. The seat needs to be FAA approved, which most are. There might be larger child seats, or smaller aircraft seats that prevent it from working in every situation. It was never a problem for us.

It's pretty easy to find stories on the Internet about airline personnel who are very resistant to allowing people to install child seats, but as this article shows, The FAA says airlines are required to work with you to make it happen.

http://www.faa.gov/passengers/fly_children/

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So you paid for another seat. Obviously much safer I assume.

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Yesterday there was also a flight to Iceland that turned back:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ICE630/history/20160517/0130Z/KBOS/KBOS

and a flight to Paris that got diverted to JFK for a while:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL38/history/20160516/2318Z/KBOS/KJFK

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