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A flight attendant broke her back during severe turbulence on a flight in Turkey — the 3rd major incident of its kind in a week
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A Turkish Airlines flight attendant has broken her back after the plane she was on hit turbulence, local media reported.
The crew member was working on a short 50-minute domestic flight from Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, to Izmir, in the west of the country.
Shortly after the pilot warned passengers to fasten their seat belts, the Airbus A321 suddenly dropped midair in response to turbulence, Hurriyet, Turkey’s biggest newspaper, reported.
One man died, and more than 100 passengers were injured on board a Singapore Airlines flight last Tuesday after the plane dropped hundreds of feet before stabilizing midair.
In a 2023 study, researchers at the UK’s University of Reading found that in 1979, there were around 17.7 hours of severe turbulence over an average point above the Atlantic Ocean.
Last week, pilot Emma Henderson told BI that, even though the Singapore Airlines flight was an extreme case, it is a good idea always to wear a seatbelt, even if the sign is off, to protect against turbulence.
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