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Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 1303 encounters severe turbulence over South America

By Scott Bachmeier •

ARG-1303 flight path (from FlightAware.com) [click to enlarge]

ARG-1303 flight path (from FlightAware.com) [click to enlarge]

Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 1303 encountered severe turbulence while flying from Miami, Florida to Buenos Aires, Argentina on 18 October 2018 (media report). The flight track (above) and flight log data indicated that the aircraft rapidly gained then lost over 2000 feet in altitude around 1823 UTC while over far western Brazil.

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) showed a cluster of rapidly-developing thunderstorms at that location and time (within the red circle) — cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were colder than -80ºC (shades of violet).

GOES-16 "Clean" Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]

Categories: Aviation, GOES-16