Passengers from an Air Europa flight diverted to northeastern Brazil on July 1, 2024, due to severe turbulence, said they feared for their lives during the incident which injured around 40 people, four of whom were taken to intensive-care units.
“There are passengers with fractures and injuries to their arms, faces, and legs,” one passenger told Reuters in the Brazilian city of Natal, where flight UX045 from Madrid to the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, made an unscheduled landing.
Another passenger, Maximiliano, said the plane - a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with 325 passengers on board - had suddenly started to plunge.
“From one moment to the next, the plane destabilized and went into a dive,” he said. “The people who didn’t have seat belts went up in the air and hit the ceiling, and they got hurt - those who had seat belts on, not so much.”
Air Europa said in a statement that six people were still in the hospital in Natal and were being assisted by ground personnel from Brazil an...
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