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A Delta Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday after dozens of people were injured during “significant” turbulence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flight 56 bound for Amsterdam took off from Salt Lake City airport at 16:30 local time (23:30 BST), before being diverted to Minneapolis. It landed just over two hours into its nine-hour flight time, at around 19:45 local time (01:45 BST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medical personnel met the Airbus A330-900 to “evaluate customers and crew” after it arrived in Minneapolis, with 25 passengers then transported to local hospitals for care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement, Delta said that it is “working with customers to support their immediate needs”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were 275 passengers and 13 crew members on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the US, there have been 207 severe injuries caused by turbulence – where an individual has been admitted to hospital for more than 48 hours – since 2009, according to official figures from the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Estimates show that there are around 5,000 incidents of severe-or-greater turbulence every year, out of a total of more than 35 million flights that now take off globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Severe turbulence is defined as when the up and down movements of a plane going through disturbed air exert more than 1.5g-force on your body – enough to lift you out of your seat if you weren’t wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: A Delta Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday after dozens of people were injured during “significant” turbulence. Flight 56 bound for Amsterdam took off from Salt Lake City airport at 16:30 local time (23:30 BST), before being diverted to Minneapolis. It landed just over two hours into its nine-hour flight time, at around 19:45 local time (01:45 BST) Medical personnel met the Airbus A330-900 to “evaluate customers and crew” after it arrived in Minneapolis, with 25 passengers then transported to local hospitals for care. In a statement, Delta said that it is… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48851,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48849\/revisions\/48851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}