36 injured during turbulence on Hawaiian Airlines flight - The Washington Post

“Medical attraction was provided to respective guests & crewmembers astatine the airdrome for insignificant injuries portion immoderate were swiftly transported to section hospitals for further care,” Hawaiian Airlines tweeted.

Passengers suffered injuries including cuts to the head, bruises and nonaccomplishment of consciousness, the exigency aesculapian authorities said. Eleven radical were successful superior information and 9 others were unchangeable astatine the hospital. Officials said 13 radical were taken to hospitals by ambulance and the remainder by metropolis bus, accompanied by paramedics and different aesculapian staff.

The formation was full, with 278 passengers, 8 formation attendants and 2 pilots, Hawaiian Airlines Chief Operating Officer Jon Snook said. The level was flying astatine 36,000 feet erstwhile it deed the turbulence. He said helium did not yet cognize however overmuch altitude the level mislaid and could lone speculate astatine this constituent astir however radical were injured.

“Injuries hap due to the fact that the craft goes down and if you don’t person your spot loop on, you enactment wherever you are arsenic the craft goes down,” helium said during a news league Sunday day successful Hawaii. Three of the radical who were taken to the infirmary were formation attendants, helium said.

Kaylee Reyes, who was a rider connected the flight, told Hawaii News Now that her parent had conscionable sat down and hadn’t yet buckled her spot loop erstwhile turbulence hit.

“She flew up and deed the ceiling,” Reyes said.

Another passenger, Jazmin Bitanga, told the quality outlet that the level experienced 2 “intense” drops. During one, she said, her boyfriend’s metallic h2o vessel flew into the ceiling, cracking it. A photo circulating connected societal media shows what appears to beryllium a gash and cracks successful the plane’s ceiling.

“Just each astir maine determination were radical crying,” Bitanga told Hawaii News Now.

The Federal Aviation Administration said successful a connection that the Flight 35 was heading from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport erstwhile it reported the turbulence astatine astir 10:35 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time.

The bureau said it was investigating.

According to the Associated Press, the National Weather Service successful Honolulu said a upwind advisory had been issued for thunderstorms Sunday greeting successful areas that would person included the plane’s formation path.

Snook said during the quality league that specified an utmost lawsuit of turbulence was “relatively uncommon.”

“We haven’t experienced an incidental of this quality successful caller past for sure,” helium said. He said determination wasn’t immoderate informing of the peculiar spot of aerial that caused the incident.

He said the spot loop motion was connected astatine the clip the level deed the spot of air, but it wasn’t wide however galore radical were not buckled.

Snook said determination was not a conflict successful the cockpit to power the plane.

“These craft are designed to woody with this benignant of level of turbulence and are designed to retrieve from it without issue,” helium said.