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Severe turbulence causes emergency landing in Calgary
Several passengers have been taken to hospital in Calgary, Alberta this morning after an Air Canada Airbus A319 had to make an emergency landing, according to reports. The cause appears to be severe turbulence, which led to passengers and loose items being thrown around the cabin. Luckily, no one is severely injured. According to one passenger's account: "It happened very fast. One side of the plane just went up a little bit sideways and then just went back down. Our friend was really hurt. ... She flew up and hit the ceiling and went back down."
With a dad who's a pilot, I certainly know the meaning of bad turbulence -- but it's pretty rare that turbulence is so severe it causes an emergency landing. Scary.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Julia Rosien Jan 10th 2008 6:43PM
Environment Canada called what they hit a typical storm, but this is the second emergency landing. In September a flight landed in Halifax under similar conditions.
If meteorologists are calling this a typical storm, why did it happen? Why couldn't they have predicted they'd run into trouble.
Scary indeed!
Rhonda Halderman Jan 11th 2008 11:57AM
I work for a major airline. We always announce to keep your seatbelt fastened when seated even if the cockpit doesn't have the sign illuminated in case there is unexpected turbulence. No one pays any attention. People are always up and around when the seatbelt sign is on and seem offended when we remind them that they shouldn't be up at this time. I wish we were allowed to say, "Remember the Air Canada flight when the unfortunate passenger hit her head on the ceiling during unexpected turbulence"? But that would not be appropriate!
TheTravelDiary.Net Jan 11th 2008 10:49AM
And this is why you keep your seatbelt on when your sitting!
katie Jan 11th 2008 10:47AM
maybe that friend should have been wearing their seat belt