Video of undular bore found, see what Air Canada 190 felt

CrankyFlier posted a fascinating video of a undular bore, which may have caused the severe turbulence on Air Canada Flight 190, that injured 10 passengers and forced the plane to make an emergency landing to treat the passengers.

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Written by tb_neg on January 16th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Jon
#1. January 16th, 2008, at 1:00 PM.

Here are some more links on the Air Canada Airbus flight (kind of funny how much press this one is generating).

Stories from a couple of the passengers:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=d39ccaf4-d8b9-4c48-9d28-5e9d2400e828&k=90452

This one is saying that it might have been wake turbulence from an unidentified aircraft (newspaper surmised in was a stealth bomber, but hey this is one of the Sun news papers, not know for their stringent journalism):

http://winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/01/16/4775324-sun.html