Passengers injured as Madrid-São Paulo flight stages emergency landing
Passengers injured as Madrid-São Paulo flight stages emergency landing
FIFTEEN people have been injured after an aircraft heading for São Paulo from Madrid had to make an emergency landing in Fortaleza on the north-east coast of Brazil due to turbulence.
Panic broke out among the 200 passengers on board, and 15 of them sustained bruising and fractures.
Sources from the national airline TAM say severe turbulence struck when the plane, which had set off from Madrid at 22.30hrs Spanish time last night (Monday), crossed over Ecuador.
The airline has apologised to all affected passengers and arranged an onward flight to the south-eastern city of São Paulo for those who are not injured for later that same evening, which would have been the early hours of this morning (Tuesday) in Spain.
