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This combination of moving symbol images shows the interior of a Hawaiian Airlines aircraft; A user is being dragged on a stretcher after a flight from Phoenix experienced severe turbulence on Monday. AP/Reuters
A total of 36 other people received medical attention after the bustling Hawaiian Airlines flight Sunday for bumps, bruises, cuts and nausea, said Jim Ireland, Honolulu’s director of Emergency Medical Services. Another 20 people were taken to hospital, 11 of them in serious condition. .
“We are also very happy and feel fortunate that there have been no deaths or other serious injuries. And we also expect everyone to do it and completely,” Ireland said.
The entire flight had only about three hundred people on board and carried many passengers traveling to Hawaii for the holidays, such as Jacie Hayata Ano, who was returning home.
“Just hard,” he told KHON-TV. And then it temporarily intensified to the point where we were shaking so much that we felt like we were floating in our chairs. “
Passenger Jodette Neely told NBC’s “Today” show that she saw other people banging their heads on the roof of the plane. She said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it is investigating the incident.
Hawaiian Airlines Chief Operating Officer Jon Snook said such turbulence is remote and unusual, noting that the airline had not experienced anything like this in recent history. Three flight attendants were among the injured, he said.
Passenger Kaylee Reyes told Hawaii News Now that her mother had just sat up when the turbulence hit and didn’t get a chance to buckle up. “He flew and hit the roof,” Reyes said.
Jazmin Bitanga, who is also returning home for the holidays, said there were two falls from height, one of which was so hard that she threw her boyfriend’s water bottle onto the roof of the plane.
“I turned around and there were some other people bleeding and getting ready,” he told Hawaii News Now. “Around me, there were other people crying. “
The turbulence caused internal damage to the aircraft, Snook said. The seat belt signal was on at the time, though some of the injured people were not dressed in them, he said.
Thomas Vaughan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, said there was a weather advisory for thunderstorms that included Oahu and spaces that would have included the flight path at the time of the turbulence.
The airline was aware of weather forecasting and volatile weather and weather conditions, but was uncareful that the specific domain of the air where the turbulence occurred “was somehow dangerous,” Snook said.
He didn’t know how much altitude the aircraft had lost due to turbulence, and said it would be part of an investigation involving the National Transportation Safety Board. The aircraft’s flight data recorder would provide those details, he said.
The investigation would also focus in particular on what passengers and equipment were doing at the time, he said.
Associated Press