20 people who were on a Hawaiian Airlines flight near Honolulu suffered significant injuries when the jetliner bucked violently in a patch of turbulent air Sunday, officials say.
Twenty people who were on a Hawaiian Airlines flight near Honolulu suffered significant injuries when the jetliner bucked violently in a patch of turbulent air Sunday, officials said.
Flight 35 was at a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet when it hit the patch, Hawaiian Airlines Chief Operating Officer Jon Snook said at a news conference Sunday. After it landed safely, the Airbus was the subject of a precautionary mass casualty response by paramedics, which included multiple emergency vehicles on the tarmac, Dr. James Ireland, the director of the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, said at the news conference.
The hospitalized patients suffered head injuries, cuts, bruises and nausea, officials said. Three of the injured were flight attendants, they said.Jazmin Bitanga / AP Such a level of turbulence has not affected a Hawaiian Airlines flight since the century began, Snook said.
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