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During the flight my daughter moved back and forth between her seat and my lap. She wanted to play with the people in the row behind her. She got tired and laid down next to me. Her head was in my lap. After the flight attendant collected the lemonade cups, I felt a little bump and then a big bump, and the aeroplane just dropped. I could not understand what happened. The weather had been sunny, and I had seen thick white clouds. I heard an announcement, ‘I’ll have us on the ground in about ten minutes’, and, ‘Flight attendants, please prepare for landing’. I recall entering rainy weather, and I leaned forward in my seat to look out the window. The rain was coming on the wing slanted.

Other traffic in the sky near the airport and on the field’s taxiways was aware of the storm, talking about it with the ground controllers and the tower.