14 injured on Air Canada flight
Plane was on way from Victoria to Toronto when turbulence hit, injuring several people
CBC News
More than a dozen people were hurt on a flight that encountered turbulence and was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Calgary Thursday morning.
Fourteen people suffered minor injuries, mostly to the back and neck, said Calgary EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux.
More than a dozen people from the flight were taken to hospital, say medical officials.
(CBC) “It happened really fast. One side of the plane went up sort of sideways and then came back down,” one passenger told CBC News.
She said she saw her friend, who was among those taken to the hospital, “fly up” and hit the ceiling.
Flight 190 was en route from Victoria to Toronto when it made an emergency landing in Calgary at 8:30 a.m. MT.
Crews responded with 19 ambulances after receiving reports of multiple injuries on board the Airbus A319.
Air Canada said the preliminary passenger list indicates the plane was carrying 83 passengers and five crew members.
The airline also said relatives of those on board who are seeking more information about the flight can get it by calling toll free at 1-800-961-7099.
I checked the FlightAware log, and noticed a lot of bouncing up to 37000 ft… I makes no sense to me… Is this an error in the log? Otherwise those people really suffered!!!
“Some of the armrests on the aisle seat sides were bent 60 degrees from people holding on - that’s how extreme it was,”
WHAT A RIDE!!! THAT is why you wear your seatbelt while seated.
FlightAware, a U.S.-based company that tracks commercial air traffic, reported the plane appeared to hit rough air at 7:50 a.m. and changed altitude numerous times, apparently to find a smoother route before descending into Calgary.
“Some of the armrests on the aisle seat sides were bent 60 degrees from people holding on - that’s how extreme it was,”
“WHAT A RIDE!!! THAT is why you wear your seatbelt while seated.”
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People think I’m nuts because I always wear mine throughout the flight. I learned my lesson early - flying home from England in 1974 on a tiny DC something (that are no longer allowed to fly across the Ocean) to get all customers back to Canada. We hit an air pocket and I flew up in the air. Fortunately for me I didn’t hit my head on the ceiling like the girl sleeping behind me! That was my second flight - my first flight alone. Loved it ever since!
Here is an article (split into two pieces thanks to my crappy scanner) from The Globe and Mail (Canadian newspaper) about ACA190. FlightAware is mentioned.
“Some of the armrests on the aisle seat sides were bent 60 degrees from people holding on - that’s how extreme it was,”
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No freaking way.
The aisle seats have latches on them to lock them down, but can be unlatched quite simply. No way were they bent from people hanging on to them.
In related news, I hit some clear air turbulence last week descending through about 17,000ft hard enough to cause the toilet seat to end up in the middle of the aisle.
that says a Seattle air traffic controller noticed that the paths of a 747 and the A319 were dangerously close, although apparently still outside regulated distances.
Hrmmm… Just out of curiosity… Isn’t this Canadian airspace? Why would a Seattle controller be watching this area? I mean, if they are eastbound from Victoria, I can’t see them dipping that far south into US airspace.
Reports are consistent in placing the incident in Washington airspace about 120 kilometres south of Cranbrook, B.C.
Domestic trans-Canadian flights routinely fly over the US, sometimes as far South as Iowa.
The Seattle controller would have been working the “ZSE” ARTCC (not the tower or approach as might be implied). Here’s the sectors map for the US (Cranbrook lies more or less N. of the ID/MT border):
