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A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam that was hit by serious turbulence Wednesday, sending 25 people on ...

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Delta reported after the incident that 25 passengers were taken to various hospitals for evaluation and medical treatment.

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But this clear air turbulence is generated by instabilities in the jet stream because of very rapidly moving air currents up there at 35,000 feet. The wind speed increases with altitude.

In 1979 clear air turbulence totalled 467 hours over the North Atlantic, while in 2020 the figure was 547 hours. Reports of deaths due to turbulence are extremely rare, but injuries less so.

Turbulence can be described as "the chaotic flow of air," with its most common causes being thunderstorms, weather fronts, mountains, or even day-time heating.

Turbulence accounted for 37.6% of all accidents on larger commercial airlines between 2009 and 2018. Turbulence is essentially unstable air that moves in an unpredictable fashion.