Eli5: why isn’t a plane experiencing turbulence considered dangerous?

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Eli5: why isn’t a plane experiencing turbulence considered dangerous?

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For the same reason that a boat on the ocean can go up and down with the waves. Planes are under the same physics, and designed to stay structurally sound under basic turbulence, which is just different air currents moving under it. Just like waves.

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