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Twelve folks had been injured on Sunday throughout turbulence on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha that landed safely as scheduled in Ireland, the Dublin Airport stated.
The airplane, a Boeing B787-9, was flying over Turkey when it encountered turbulence, injuring six passengers and 6 crew members, the Dublin Airport stated on social media.
The flight landed in Dublin simply earlier than 1 p.m. native time and was met by emergency medical employees, the airport stated.
Passengers had been checked for accidents earlier than leaving the airplane, and eight folks had been taken to a hospital.
Dublin Airport stated that its operations weren’t affected and that the airline’s return flight to Doha was nonetheless scheduled to depart afterward Sunday.
Qatar Airways stated in a press release that “a small quantity” of passengers on the flight, QR017, had minor accidents.
“The matter is now topic to an inner investigation,” the airline stated. “The security and safety of our passengers and crew are our prime precedence.”
The flight lasted seven hours and 35 minutes in accordance with Flight Aware, a flight monitoring web site. The flight continued for greater than three hours after passing over Turkey, in accordance with monitoring knowledge.
The accidents come after a uncommon loss of life from turbulence occurred throughout a Singapore Airlines flight on Tuesday.
A 73-year-old man from Britain died and dozens of individuals had been injured in the course of the flight, which left from London and was flying over Myanmar when it hit what the airline described as “sudden excessive turbulence.”
The airplane, a Boeing 777-300ER, made an emergency touchdown in Bangkok, Thailand.
Singapore Airlines stated in a press release on Sunday that 40 passengers and a crew member who had been on the flight had been nonetheless hospitalized in Bangkok. There had been 211 passengers on the 13-hour flight.
Though turbulence on a flight could be intense and extreme, it’s uncommon for it to end in a loss of life.
There had been 163 passengers and crew members critically injured by turbulence on plane registered within the United States from 2009 to 2022, in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration.
