The Lufthansa flight to from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt with 348 people on aboard, on Tuesday, hit by a severe turbulence over the Atlantic leaving several people injured. A foreign media agency confirmed the incident saying that at least eleven people were injured when the Lufthansa flight hit turbulence. According to Lufthansa, the Boeing 747-8 was carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members. Reportedly, the turbulence was brief and occurred in an intertropical convergence zone.
“Unfortunately, five passengers and six crew members suffered mostly minor injuries,” a Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters in an email. “The safety of the flight was not in jeopardy at any time.”
Lufthansa said that those injured were immediately taken for medical treatment after the aircraft landed safely in Frankfurt.
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