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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Pilot here, you would be amazed how much a modern airliner can handle, look up wing flex tests on YouTube.

Modern airliners are built to withstand something around 150% of the maximum turbulence they will actually encounter, there’s a reason air travel is the safest method of transportation.

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