Berlin:
Eleven people were injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt encountered heavy turbulence while traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, the airline said Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, five passengers and six crew suffered mainly minor injuries,” a Lufthansa spokesman told Reuters in an email, confirming a report by news agency DPA.
“The safety of the flight was at no time compromised,” the spokesperson added.
The injured received immediate medical treatment after the plane landed safely at its planned destination at 10:53 a.m. (0953 GMT) on Tuesday, the airline said.
The Boeing 747-8 was carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members. The turbulence was short-lived and occurred in an intertropical convergence zone, the company said.
In May, a passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 people were injured when a Singapore Airlines passenger plane was seriously shaken by an air pocket over Myanmar's Irrawaddy Basin.
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