Several people have been injured after a flight headed for Northern California was forced to make an emergency landing in South Dakota. His laptop nearly hit the ceiling and several other passengers hit their heads, including a flight attendant in the galley during the incident.
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Derek Lindahl told CNN that he saw a woman who wasn’t wearing a seat belt rise two feet out of her seat. Eight passengers were injured in May when turbulence rocked a plane traveling from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Orlando, Florida. In the above YouTube clip, one passenger told reporters that she felt like she was in a “tower of terror”.
Passengers say they are happy to be in Sacramento after turbulence on their flight resulted in what they described as a tower of terror.
“We felt like a giant hand hit the plane …”
A JetBlue spokesman said 7 passengers and 2 crew members were taken to Rapid City Regional Hospital by ambulance while 15 others were taken there by bus for further evaluation. “It was bad. The lights went out in the cabin”, she said.
“People were floating”, recalled passenger Rhonda Lynam, according to ABC News.
A flight attendant is fitted with a neck brace after the horror Jetblue flight.
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“There was stuff in the aisles, you had people crying”. JetBlue said 122 of the passengers completed their trip Friday morning, landing in Sacramento more than seven hours after their scheduled arrival.
