Lufthansa A333 - severe turbulence drops airplane by 600 feet

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Incident: Lufthansa A333 near Halifax on Feb 5th 2010, severe turbulence drops airplane by 600 feet

A Lufthansa Airbus A330-300, registration D-AIKN performing flight LH-427 from Philadelphia,PA (USA) to Frankfurt/Main (Germany), was enroute at FL310 about 90nm south of Halifax, widespread severe turbulence had been reported at all flight levels above FL280. At around 20:00L (01:00Z Feb 6th) the Lufthansa crew reported, that their airplane had dropped by about 600 feet due to severe turbulence, and climbed back to FL310. No other aircraft was in the vicinity. The airplane continued for a safe landing in Frankfurt about 5:15 hours later.

Incident: Lufthansa A333 near Halifax on Feb 5th 2010, severe turbulence drops airplane by 600 feet