The Air Canada Rouge flight was above Tennessee, en route to Costa Rica, when it encountered severe turbulence. Air Canada says the flight has been rescheduled to Thursday.
Air Canada says two of its flight attendants were injured, and passengers will depart on Thursday in another aircraft.
An Air Canada Rouge flight made an emergency landing at Pearson airport late Thursday evening after several people suffered injuries due to severe turbulence.
Peel paramedics confirmed that they responded to a call for assistance around 6:50 p.m., but noted that the scene had "downgraded" in its severity from initial reports. Three people were treated for minor injuries sustained from the turbulence, paramedics said. Two people were later sent to hospital with minor injuries.
Air Canada said two of its flight attendants were injured on flight AC1806 en route to San Jose, Costa Rica. The plane was above Tennessee when it was forced to turn back and return to Toronto.
The airline says passengers will be departing to San Jose later Thursday on another Aircraft.
Accident: American A332 near Fond du Lac on
Feb 14th 2018, severe turbulence injures flight attendant
An American Airlines Airbus A330-200, registration N292AY performing flight AA-1743 from Philadelphia,PA to San Francisco,CA (USA), was enroute at FL260 over Lake Michigan about 70nm east of Fond du Lac,WI (USA) when the aircraft encountered severe turbulence. The flight crew climbed the aircraft to FL300 and continued the flight to San Francisco, where the aircraft landed without further incident about 4:10 hours later. The FAA reported a flight attendant was injured when the aircraft encountered severe turbulence near Fond du Lac,WI. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1743/history/20180214/2030Z/KPHL/KSFO Infrared Satellite Image GOES-16 Feb 14th 2018 23:00Z (Graphics: AVH/NASA): |
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