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'Nightmare' turbulence injures 12 on transatlantic flight
Mia Alberti and Barry Neild, CNN • Updated 21st October 2022
(CNN) — A
"nightmare" transatlantic flight hit such violent turbulence that it
left at least 12 people injured with passengers recounting how they were
smashed into the plane's ceiling and thrown to the floor.
Aerolíneas
Argentinas flight R1133, an Airbus A330-200 twin-jet engined plane,
which took off around 8 p.m. on October 18 from Madrid, got into trouble
mid flight en route to Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.
According
to accounts posted on Twitter, passengers were caught off guard as the
aircraft lurched up and down, sending people and objects crashing around
the plane's interior.
Passengers said damage to the plane's interior was caused by heads hitting into the ceiling.
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"Well
there was some turbulence during which we were not told to put the
security belt and everyone just went flying," one passenger, posting on
Twitter as adrianceitor, wrote.
"Even the stewardesses were on the ground."
He
described people's heads smashing into the plane's surfaces. "The last
seven hours of the flight were a f*** nightmare," he added.
One
image posted on Twitter shows passengers clutching their heads in
apparent distress in the aftermath of the turbulence with debris strewn
around the cabin floor. Another showed a what looked like a tangle of
oxygen mask tubes dangling from the ceiling.
A woman with apparent injuries to her nose caused by the incident.
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In one photo a woman can be seen with bandages around what looked to be injuries to her nose.
In
a statement, Aerolineas Argentinas said three people needed to be
placed under "careful observation" after the aircraft landed in Buenos
Aires, while nine others were treated for "light injuries."
"According
to the information given by the crew, the safety belt lights were on
and the corresponding announcement was made," the statement said. "The
passengers that were more injured, and those that had to be transferred,
were not wearing the safety belt at the moment of the turbulence."
The
airline said the "event" occurred over the Atlantic Ocean as the A330
carrying 271 passengers and 13 crew were approaching South America. "An
evaluation to the aircraft did not show significant damage to its
structure," it added.
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