Scary footage has emerged from a Miami-bound Scandinavian Airways flight that needed to make a U-turn on Thursday (Nov 14) and return to Europe after encountering extreme turbulence over Greenland. The video clip going viral on social media exhibits passengers screaming because the aircraft violently shakes, ejecting the fliers from their seats. Meals and carry-on luggage is also seen lining the aisles earlier than the pilots took the decision to return to a base in Copenhagen with 254 passengers and crew members onboard.
“Have a look at her toes touching the [ceiling]!” one passenger wrote alongside a clip that has gone viral on social media. “Thought we’d die.”
The flight had taken off from Stockholm round 12:55 pm native time and was resulting from land in Miami at 5:45 pm when the incident passed off. Regardless of the heavy shakedown, there have been no critical accidents among the many passengers and crew, in accordance with a Scandinavian Airways spokesperson.
“Following such turbulence, commonplace security procedures require a radical inspection of the plane,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The passengers had been accommodated in a lodge in a single day and had been booked on different flights by Friday morning, in accordance with a report in NY Publish.
🚨 #BreakingNow A video from #SK957 cabin as excessive turbulence hit a SAS A330 over Greenland,throwing unbuckled passengers into the ceiling.This incident highlights how turbulence can happen with out warning,making seatbelts important for passenger security. https://t.co/iYVA4IIUER pic.twitter.com/S4kCaKwnn0
— Antony Ochieng,KE✈️ (@Turbinetraveler) November 15, 2024
The flight, which usually takes 9 hours, was rerouted again to Copenhagen, Denmark the place technicians are on the lookout for any potential damages. In line with reviews, if the flight had continued its journey to Miami, it will have been grounded “for an prolonged time period” because the US metropolis doesn’t have house and personnel for inspection of a aircraft that has suffered such injury. The aviation security protocols mandate a radical inspection of any plane when it undergoes extreme turbulence.
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Earlier occasion
This isn’t the primary occasion when a Scandinavian Airline flight has been pressured to desert the flight path and return to residence base. In September, a flight certain for Malaga, Spain from Norway has halted when a mouse leaped from a passenger’s meal and began roaming across the cabin.
The pilot was pressured to land in Copenhagen resulting from a coverage that prohibits rodents on flights as a result of they’ll chew via electrical wiring.