BRASILIA: Dozens of passengers were injured Monday when an Air Europa flight from Madrid to Montevideo hit strong turbulence, prompting an emergency landing in Brazil, the airline and government officials said.
The plane, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with 325 people on board, was diverted in the early morning hours to the airport of Natal in northeast Brazil, where more than a dozen ambulances waited.Forty passengers were taken to hospitals and clinics in Natal for treatment of “abrasions and minor traumas,“ the health secretariat of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state told AFP.
Images she posted showed broken ceiling panels, with pipes and wires visible, while one photo showed emergency vehicles with flashing lights waiting on the tarmac in Natal. Scientists also say that so-called clear air turbulence, which is invisible to radar, is getting worse because of climate change.
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