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Seven passengers hospitalized due to strong turbulence on a plane and another 10 injured by a battery fire on another flight

2023-03-02T15:41:26.012Z


A Lufthansa flight that had taken off from Texas suffered two altitude losses while flying over Tennessee. Another from Spirit made an emergency landing in Florida because of a fire.


By

Phil Helsel

and

Chantal Da Silva

- NBC News

Two incidents registered in two planes in the last hours have caused injuries to almost twenty people.

At least seven were hospitalized Wednesday night after the flight in which they were traveling from Texas to Germany suffered turbulence and had to land in Washington DC And another 10 people were hospitalized in Jacksonville, Florida after a battery caught fire in a compartment of a Spirit Airlines flight to Orlando.

Turbulence at 37,000 feet

German Lufthansa Flight 469, which had left Austin for Frankfurt, entered a zone of turbulence while flying over Tennessee at 37,000 feet (11,300 meters) and the plane began to shake, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. (FAA).

A plane of the German company Lufthansa transits through one of the runways of an airport in Frankfurt, Germany, in a file image. Picture Aalliance via Getty Images

Several passengers explained that at first the tremors were not bothersome and the crew began to serve dinner, but in a few seconds the turbulence intensified.

"It was pretty scary for a while, to be honest," Cantipudi told Noticias Telemundo Jazz.

The plane "dipped down hard twice," he said, "all the food started flying everywhere."

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A crew member was thrown against the roof of the aircraft.

"He was literally standing there serving drinks, so he had no way to hold on to anything," Cantipudi recounted.

"In one of the falls he hit the ceiling and was completely horizontal," he said.

The two jolts occurred within 20 seconds, a traveler told the local NBC News station in Washington.

A flight to Jacksonville, Florida, is diverted due to a battery fire in the cabin

March 2, 202300:21

Lufthansa said the plane suffered "brief but severe turbulence about 90 minutes after takeoff" and "made an unscheduled precautionary landing in Washington" at 9:12 p.m., according to a statement cited by The Washington Post. .

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"The affected passengers received medical attention" once on the ground, but the company did not specify how many people were injured beyond the seven people who were hospitalized.

In December, at least 20 people were injured, 11 of them seriously, by the strong turbulence that rocked a flight that made the route between Phoenix (Arizona) and Honolulu (Hawaii).

In May 2017, almost 30 people suffered injuries when the Aeroflot flight that was taking them from Moscow (Russia) to Bangkok (Thailand) experienced intense turbulence that took the crew by surprise, who were unable to warn the passengers.

A burning battery in the compartment

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A Spirit airline plane going from Dallas, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, had to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville when a battery burned in a cargo compartment in the cabin, causing at least 10 passengers to be hospitalized on Wednesday. , according to local authorities.

Crew members and a group of passengers, including a retired firefighter, managed to put out the fire before landing.

The airline reported that Flight 259 had taken off from Dallas shortly after 2 p.m. (local time) and had to divert to Jacksonville International Airport after 3:50 p.m., local station NBC News reported.

Spirit noted that the burning object was owned by a passenger.

"There was a retired firefighter who jumped in and the flight crew came and tried to put water [to put out the flames]. Another man took a bucket... it took them about 20 minutes" to put them out, passenger Kerri Arakawa said.

"The pilot came down really fast. It was exciting and we had a really soft landing, but it was pretty scary for a while until we knew we were on the ground and safe."

he added she.

The FAA announced that it will open an investigation into both incidents.

Source: telemundo

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