Terror in the skies �Part 2

We were warned to keep our seatbelts on the whole time. So just 15 minutes or so into this evening flight, we encountered terrible turbulence.

It was sudden, even the hostesses did not see it coming because they had this what-the-hell-is-that look on their faces too when I looked. Wasting no time, they abandoned their mission and dragged their trolley to the back of the plane in a spilt of a second.

Now I have this habit; whenever a plane goes through turbulence I always look at two sets of people: air hostesses and white people. I do this to judge their mood and they are usually very good indicators.

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