Twelve injured as Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin hits turbulence | Aviation Information

Dublin airport authorities say six passengers and 6 crew members had been injured after flight hit turbulence over Turkey.

At the very least a dozen folks have sustained accidents after a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin was hit by turbulence whereas flying over Turkey, Dublin airport authorities have stated.

At the very least six passengers and 6 crew members had been injured on Qatar Airways flight QR017, Dublin airport stated in a press release on Sunday.

It stated that the plane landed safely as scheduled earlier than 1pm (12:00GMT). Upon touchdown, it was met by emergency companies, together with airport police and the hearth and rescue division, the airport stated.

“All passengers had been assessed for harm previous to disembarking the plane,” it stated, including that eight passengers had been taken to hospital in Dublin within the Republic of Eire.

Qatar Airways confirmed that the flight, a Boeing B787-9 from Doha to Dublin, landed safely.

“A small variety of passengers and crew sustained minor accidents in flight and at the moment are receiving medical consideration,” learn the assertion. “The matter is now topic to an inside investigation.”

The incident comes after a British man died and dozens of individuals had been severely injured on a Singapore Airways (SIA) flight that hit sudden and extreme turbulence on Tuesday. The plane was compelled to make an emergency touchdown in Bangkok, Thailand.

Well being authorities stated on Thursday that 20 folks remained in intensive care whereas others sustained spinal wire, mind and cranium accidents.

Following the incident, Singapore’s flag provider adopted “a extra cautious method to managing turbulence in-flight”, SIA advised Al Jazeera in a press release on Friday. Below the revised coverage, meal service will not be supplied when the seat belt signal is on, the airline stated.

The cabin crew will even proceed to safe all free gadgets and tools throughout poor climate circumstances and proceed to advise passengers to return to their seats and safe their seat belts.

Air journey hardly ever results in accidents. In the US, the world’s largest air journey market, there have solely been 163 accidents between 2009 and 2022 that required hospitalisation, in keeping with the US Federal Aviation Administration.

The US Nationwide Transportation Security Board hasn’t reported a single turbulence-related demise on a large-body plane in that interval.

It’s additionally nearly exceptional for turbulence to carry down an plane – not to mention a industrial one.

Specialists warned that whereas plane are designed to resist extreme quantities of turbulence, climate-change-related elements resembling warming temperatures may result in larger wind speeds.