Passengers have described the “terrifying” extreme turbulence that injured 11 people on a Hawaiian Airlines flight on Sunday (18 December).
The incident happened approximately half an hour before the Phoenix to Honolulu plane landed, with the aircraft at 36,000 feet when severe turbulence hit.
Passenger Tiffany Reyes had just returned to her seat from the toilet when the Hawaiian Airlines flight “dipped”, she told AP News.
Ms Reyes was later told she’d “flown into the ceiling and slammed into the ground.” When lying on the aisle floor, the passenger looked up at “caved-in ceiling panels and a cracked bathroom sign that was hanging.”
“That’s the most terrifying experience I’ve been through in my whole 40 years of life,” AP News reports Ms Reyes later said, adding that she also spotted another passenger covered in blood with cuts on her head.
Passenger Jacie Hayata Ano told KHON-TV: “It was just rocky. And then, it quickly just…
