Twelve people on board a Qatar Airways flight were injured on Sunday after the plane was hit by turbulence en route to Dublin, airport authorities announced.
The flight, which came from Doha, landed at Dublin Airport shortly before 1pm and was met by emergency services after six passengers and six crew reported injuries, Dublin Airport said on Sunday. on social platform.
The 12 individuals were evaluated on the aircraft, eight of whom were taken to hospital, the airport added.
Qatar Airways flight QR017 experienced turbulence while flying over Turkey, according to the statement.
The Hill has reached out to Qatar Airways for further comment.
The return flight to Doha was due to take off normally on Sunday afternoon, and flight operations from Dublin Airport were not affected by the incident, the airport said.
It comes days after a passenger on a Singapore Airlines flight died and dozens of others were injured after the plane hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean. The flight was forced to suddenly divert to Bangkok.
The cause of the deadly turbulence has not yet been determined, and the National Transportation Safety Board said it would send a team of investigators to investigate the incident.
The incident raised questions about turbulence and whether customers should anticipate more of it due to stronger winds caused by climate change.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned Sunday that climate change is already impacting modes of transportation. He noted that while incidents like the Singapore Airlines flight are “rare,” the U.S. needs to be prepared to adapt to climate change.
“We’ve seen this in the form of everything from heat waves that shouldn’t even be statistically possible, threatening to melt cables on transit systems in the Pacific Northwest, to increasingly extreme hurricane seasons and indications that turbulence is increasing. by about 15 percent. That means evaluating anything and everything we can do about it,” he said in a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
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