A photo taken Monday and shared by passenger Claudio Fernandez Arbes shows the Air Europa Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner sitting on the tarmac in Natal, in northeastern Brazil, after making an emergency landing. More than 30 passengers were injured on an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay during severe turbulence that passengers described as “terrifying” and likened to a “horror movie.”on X.
showed damage to the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s overhead compartments, panels and seats. Passengers speaking to local media described a terrifying scene as the plane began to drop.“The sensation was terrifying, feeling like you were falling and that it was never going to end. And you were aware that you were falling at an incalculable speed. And you felt like it was going to end there, that you were going to die,” another passenger told the paper.
An Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay made an emergency landing in Natal, Brazil, on July 1 after encountering strong turbulence. “The pilots asked us to fasten our seat belts because there could be turbulence. They told us that it was a situation that they could not foresee on the radar,” passenger Larissa Gutierrezsays, and can be caused by atmospheric pressure, jet streams, air around mountains, cold or warm weather fronts or thunderstorms. Wearing a seat-belt and being attentive to flight safety announcements can reduce the risk of injury during turbulence, the agency says.