Several people were hospitalized after a Lufthansa flight had to make an emergency landing on Wednesday at Dulles International Airport in Virginia due to turbulence. On another German flight, which covered the Frankfurt-Mauritius route, some 20 people were also injured this Thursday due to strong turbulence.
Lufthansa Flight 469 from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted and landed in Dulles after the plane experienced "severe turbulence" while flying over Tennessee, the US Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
The Airbus A330 was at an altitude of about 37,000 feet when the turbulence struck, the FAA said. Seven people were transported to local hospitals, Dulles Airport said in a statement.
Meanwhile, around 20 passengers and crew members aboard Condor flight DE2314 bound for Mauritius were injured on Thursday when the plane suffered turbulence some two hours before landing, an airline spokesperson told dpa.
The airline spokesman said the injured were being treated by doctors and the severity of their injuries was unknown. The aircraft's cabin was also allegedly damaged, but no further details were released.
The plane, an Airbus A330, was carrying 272 passengers and 13 crew members and landed safely at 6:29 a.m. m. local time at an airport near the capital, Port Louis.
Mauritius is an archipelago nation whose main island lies about 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) off the southeastern coast of Africa.
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