I don't think I've had really terrible turbulence on a flight, but I distinctively remember 2 times when turbulence did happen.
Once flying from Heathrow to YYC, and there was really long lasting turbulence over the North Atlantic, the seat belt sign was on for a good half hour at the very least, with intermittent shaking.
The other time was flying from HKG to YVR and an grandma was sitting across the aisle from me, and behind her was this 20 some year old girl. We hit some turbulent air over Japan, the plane shook fairly violently, but not quite enough that people were hitting the ceiling. The grandma just sat there very calmly, kind of half asleep, the girl behind her was screaming in short bursts.
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