AVIATION: QATAR AIRWAYS IN EMERGENCY LANDING

QATAR AIRWAYS

With the recent crash of a Brazilian aircraft with over 81 persons on board in Colombia, news of an emergency landing by a Qatar Airways jet has sent panic across the international aviation industry.

Passengers of the Qatar Airways jet were sent into frenzy as the aircraft made its emergency landing at a Portuguese military base in the Azores islands following a heavy turbulence on Sunday, December 4, 2016.

Reports available states that, some of the passengers of the Boeing 777 Aircraft which was enroute Doha from Washington, sustained injuries following during the emergency landing.

The aircraft was re-routed during a storm to the Azores, a Portuguese territory in the North Atlantic, and landed at the Lajes Air Base.

Officials and witnesses said “the plane had dropped steeply in altitude, hurling several passengers out of their seats and causing one traveler to suffer heart trouble”.

“All the passengers were taken to a hotel in the evening and are due to depart on Monday morning,” said an airbase spokesman, adding that several people onboard had “suffered light injuries during the turbulence”.

“There was a medical emergency as one of the passengers had a cardiac complaint during the turbulence,” a civil protection official in the Azores said. “He was hospitalized along with two other passengers.”

Azad Essa, an Al Jazeera journalist who was on board, tweeted: “Some passengers bleeding after being flung in the air, hitting the ceiling + landing in the aisles after plane suddenly lost altitude.”