All the patients arrived at the hospitals bruised, with deep cuts even on the head while several experienced nausea and vomiting – One passenger has not yet regained consciousness
The absolute terror was experienced on Sunday by 278 passengers and 10 crew members of Hawaiian Airlines, who took off on an Airbus from Phoenix, Arizona, bound for Hawaii.
About 30 minutes before landing in Honolulu, the plane hit turbulence so severe that at least 20 passengers were seriously injured and taken to hospital.
According to Jim Ireland, chief of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services, 20 people were taken to hospitals, 11 of them in serious condition, while one passenger was taken unconscious and has not yet woken up.
All the patients arrived at the hospitals bruised, with deep cuts even on the head while several showed nausea and a tendency to vomit.
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple people injured after Severe turbulence on Hawaiian Airlines
At least 36 people are injured, including 11 seriously after a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu hits severe turbulence about 30 minutes before landing pic.twitter.com/ena19dE4I4
— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) December 18, 2022
Passenger Kaylee Reyes told Hawaii News Now that her mother had just gotten into her seat and hadn’t had time to fasten her seatbelt when the commotion began. “Suddenly it flew up and hit the roof of the plane.”
The weather report for that day predicted thunderstorms but would not affect the aircraft’s flight path. According to Jon Snook, Hawaiian Airlines’ flight director, this was the first time the airline had experienced “an incident of this nature in recent history.”
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