During a flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to Honolulu, Hawaii, 36 people were injured, eleven of them seriously, in severe turbulence. Due to the extreme air turbulence at an altitude of about 11,000 meters, some passengers were thrown from their seats and at least one person fell to the ceiling. Also among the injured were a 14-month-old child and a teenager.
The Hawaiian Airlines machine had 238 passengers and ten crew members on board.
Some passengers became unconscious
According to the airline, the plane landed at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu around 11 a.m. local time on Sunday. Honolulu Emergency Medical Services said medical personnel treated the injured passengers and crew. According to reports, no one was seriously injured. The passengers suffered head injuries, bruises and cuts and some became unconscious.
According to the Honolulu Civil Beat website, passenger Kaylee Reyes said her mother didn’t get a chance to fasten her seatbelt. “It flew up and hit the ceiling,” Reyes said, adding that the turbulence came out of nowhere.
Time and time again, people are injured by turbulence during flights. In 2019, 30 people required treatment at New York’s Kennedy International Airport, four years earlier, 21 passengers were injured onboard an Air Canada flight in air turbulence.
Source: Krone
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