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Eleven individuals had been injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt hit extreme turbulence whereas travelling over the Atlantic, the airline stated on Tuesday.
“Sadly, 5 passengers and 6 crew members suffered principally minor accidents,” a Lufthansa spokesperson instructed Reuters in an electronic mail, confirming a report by the DPA information company.
“The security of the flight was not in jeopardy at any time,” the spokesperson added.
The injured acquired medical remedy instantly after the plane landed safely at its deliberate vacation spot on Tuesday at 10:53 am (0953 GMT), in accordance with the airline.
The Boeing 747-8 had been carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members. The turbulence was transient and occurred in an intertropical convergence zone, the corporate stated.
In Could, a passenger died of a suspected coronary heart assault and 30 had been injured when a Singapore Airways passenger aircraft was severely jolted by an air pocket over the Irrawaddy Basin in Myanmar.
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