81
submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats

Fifty people have been treated by ambulance crews and 13 people are in hospital after an in-bound aircraft to Auckland experienced a “strong movement” mid-flight that reportedly saw passengers suddenly thrown about the plane.

In a statement, Hato Hone St John Ambulance said the organisation responded to an incident at Auckland International airport involving an inbound aircraft after a call at 3.58pm local time on Monday.

Five ambulances, a major incident support team vehicle, two rapid response vehicles and a number of senior personnel were dispatched to treat passengers who had been injured on the flight.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

The flight controls are well capable of sending the plane on a negative G roller coaster. But usually there are measures in place to prevent that

Or could be a gremlin on the wing and no one belives William Shatner

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Is that gremlin named Dave Calhoun, the CEO of boeing?

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Interesting. My milkman was called Davey Calhoun when I was a kid. We called him Davey the Crow because he was a bin-raking smelly bastard

This was in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, do you think it's the same guy?

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I do. I do think it’s the same guy.

this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
81 points (98.8% liked)

World News

38632 readers
2534 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS