A Qatar Airways flight experienced a severe drop Sunday … injuring a dozen people — and, eyewitness accounts paint a terrifying scene.
The flight — going from Doha, Qatar to Dublin — landed safely at the Irish airport Sunday, according to a statement from its official account.
In the statement, the airport says Airport Police and the Fire and Rescue Departments met the plane after it arrived … and, discovered 12 of the flyers — 6 passengers and 6 crew — were injured. Dublin says eight have gone to the hospital.
Apparently, the turbulence occurred over Turkey … but, the crew decided to continue on to Ireland instead of detouring — unclear why.
A local news company, RTÉ News, spoke to the passengers after they finally disembarked from their flight … and, just listen to their stories. It sounds like the turbulence hit suddenly — not even giving passengers enough time to get their seatbelts on.
Some passengers have torn clothes and wide eyes in the vid … while others admit they’re just happy they survived.
Of course, it’s just the latest unfortunate incident taking place on a Boeing plane — and comes just days after more than 30 people were injured and one died on a Singapore Airlines flight from London hit turbulence.
Take a look at footage of the aftermath .below .. with debris strewn about the cabin floor and oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling after plummeting more than 6,000 feet.
Plus, there have been more Boeing incidents … including a plane on fire in Senegal earlier this month and a crashlanding in Istanbul — and, it’s defintely made some people nervous about air travel.
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Wow blaming Boeing for turbulence UC as stupid as blaming Biden families crimes on Climate change. May be “ Boring plane survives heavy turbulence” is the headline ????
I agree with The Redhawk. It is stupid to blame, or even name the manufacturer,
in a turbulence encounter. Is there any evidence of the crew having been advised of any areas of reported turbulence areas on their route and ignored it? These are two incidents of turbulence encounters while thousands of flights are made daily. Most flights that I have been on had the flight attendants advise passengers to leave their seat belts on while remaining seated. I think that most of the airliners flying today are made by Boeing. Do you think that an Airbus would not encounter the same conditions or react differently?