Singapore flight hit by turbulence possibly had ‘inadvertent thunderstorm penetration’

Sky News Aviation Expert Captain Byron Bailey says the London to Singapore flight which was hit by severe turbulence possibly experienced “inadvertent thunderstorm penetration”. “I’ve flown a [Boeing] 777 hundreds of times across this very route, the area that they were passing through the Bay of Bengal is the most intense cyclogenetic area in the world with the most active thunderstorms,” he told Sky News Australia. “When you’re travelling from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere you’ve always got to pass through the intertropical convergent zone – that line of thunderstorms, very active.”