Qatar Airways: Passengers say they have been thrown round cabin in ‘atrocious’ turbulence on flight from Doha to Dublin | EUROtoday

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Passengers who have been injured in extreme turbulence on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin have stated their garments have been ripped and flight attendants have been scratched throughout the terrifying ordeal.

Twelve passengers have been injured as turbulence precipitated some individuals on board to hit the cabin ceiling on the flight on Sunday.

All passengers have been assessed for damage earlier than disembarking the plane as soon as the airplane landed safely as scheduled shortly earlier than 1pm, with eight passengers subsequently taken to hospital, airport officers stated.

One traveller named Cathal stated his shorts had ripped aside as he was flung across the cabin throughout the turbulence.

Showing Irish broadcaster RTE, he stated: “It was just atrocious… never again.”

He added: “Dinner came off my lap. Food all over the ceiling, everywhere.”

Emma Rose Power described panicked scenes as flight attendants with scratches to their faces tended to themselves with ice packs, whereas one flight attendant needed to put her arm in a sling.

An announcement from Dublin Airport stated: “Upon landing, the aircraft was met by emergency services, including Airport Police and our Fire and Rescue department, due to 6 passengers and 6 crew [12 total] on board reporting injuries after the aircraft experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey,” an announcement on the airport’s official X account stated.

“The Dublin Airport team continues to provide full assistance on the ground to passengers and airline staff.”

The newest incident comes days after a British man was killed on a violently turbulent flight from Heathrow to Singapore.

Geoffrey Kitchen, a father-of-two and theatre director taking a “last big holiday” along with his spouse, died from a suspected coronary heart assault. Fifty different individuals have been injured after unbuckled passengers hit the cabin ceiling whereas the airplane dropped 6,000ft in a matter of minutes.Singapore Airlines stated that flight encountered “sudden extreme turbulence” round 10 hours after departure whereas flying over Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Basin at 37,000 ft, with the following chaos inflicting the pilot to declare a medical emergency and touchdown in Bankok some 90 minutes in need of its supposed vacation spot.

Tracking web site Flightradar24 stated knowledge despatched from the plane confirmed a “rapid change in vertical rate, consistent with a sudden turbulence event”, including that there have been “some severe” thunderstorms within the space on the time.

It is uncommon for turbulence to trigger accidents on flights – and even rarer for passengers to lose their lives consequently. One research suggests plane encounter extreme clear air turbulence at the very least 790 instances a 12 months, which equates to round as soon as each 11 hours.