Video captured by NOAA P3 Mechanic Lonnie Kregelka on #NOAA43 (10/23/15) during it's first pass through East Pacific Hurricane #Patricia. The crew experienced 3G and -1.5G. The last ten seconds of this video the crew hit an up draft followed immediately by a down draft. The plane and crew were thumped so hard that the flight director's (Meteorologist's) keyboard flew off his station and all of his data was dumped. The crew circled for a hour afterwards as the Flight Director reconstructed the da

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