Frequent business traveler Allen Crockett learned a painful lesson about how wind turbulence can jolt even big airline jets.
He bolted for the lavatory before landing during what had been a calm American Airlines
flight from Chicago to Raleigh, N.C., in 2006. But the MD-80 suddenly
lurched violently, banging Crockett's left knee against the toilet bowl
to partially tear a ligament and his right hand against molding to
rupture a tendon.
"Two surgeries later they still hurt,"
says Crockett, 50, a wireless sales executive from Clayton, N.C., who
flies 125,000 miles a year.
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