Turbulence on a Qatar Airways flight to Dublin causes 12 injuries, according to the airport

Timmy Mabs | 27th May, 2024.

Turbulence-related airline accidents are the most common type.

Photo credit: Illustration: Alphonsus Chern

A Qatar Airways flight en route from Doha to Ireland witnessed turbulence that left an incredible twelve passengers injured, reports Dublin Airport May 26, and the plan landed safely.

Flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, arrived just before 1 o’clock in the afternoon Dublin time, the airport stated.

Holding the injured, airport staff and emergency services such as airport police/ fire and rescue service were waiting for the plane upon arrival,” Dublin Airport said in a statement following the incident adding, “The six passengers and six crew members on board said they were involve in an injury after the plane experience turbulences mid-air while flying over Turkey.

The unnamed airline suffered what was termed as a near-miss recently as noted by Irish broadcaster RTE, where the confrontation was said to have ensued among passengers arriving at Dublin Airport during a food and drinks service period, with the event lasting approximately 20 seconds.

She therefore spoke to the radio about the incident saying that; ‘the turbulence occurred when the seat belt light was switches off’. This could be when his dinner fell off his laps and this caused his shorts to get ripped.

Another passenger, Conor, he also said, he felt that plane moved downwards for approximately five seconds, and from what he saw a flight attendant floated off the ceiling and immediately fell on the ground.

His companion Emma stated that these were some of the observations; she saw flight attendants with scratch marks on their face and the look of panic on everybody.

A small number of passengers and crew members have been affected by the turbulence resulting in minor injury and are being treated,” it said.

The airline did not specify the occurrence of turbulence, but commented that it is an internal matter under review.

This happened only five days after a Singapore Airlines flight flying from London to Singapore had to crash land in Bangkok resulting in turbulence that caused the death of a 73 years old Briton and sending twenty other passengers to the intensive care unit.

The following are the most common types of airline accidents: Turbulence-related accidents, which constituted 26% of most global accidents in a study conducted by the US National Transportation Safety Board in 2021.

In the case of turbulence occurrences reported by the US agency from 2009 to 2018, the agency discovered that above half of reported airline accidents, and most of them mainly cause one or more serious injuries to passengers but no damage to the aircraft.