Today’s critical incident inflicting critical accidents to Hawaiian Airlines Passengers half-hour earlier than touchdown in Honolulu exhibits the significance to put on seatbelts on planes.
A Hawaiian Airlines Airbus 330-243 working HA 35 left Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Sunday morning at 7.18 am and landed at Honolulu Daniel Ok Inouye International airport at 10.46 with greater than 36 injured passengers, and a damaged ceiling.
According to tweets, 11 passengers had been severely injured on this flight on account of turbulences.
Some passengers had been seen flying out of their seats and a number of other hitting the ceiling, others come knocked unconscious.
The pilot declared an emergency half-hour earlier than touchdown this passenger flight at Honolulu Daniel Ok Inouye International airport.
The Honolulu Airport Emergency Medical Services experiences responding to a “mass casualty emergency,”
Hawaiian Airlines hours later issued this assertion on Twitter:
HA35 from PHX to HNL encountered extreme turbulence and landed safely in HNL at 10:50 a.m. right this moment.
Medical care was supplied to a number of company & crewmembers on the airport for minor accidents whereas some had been swiftly transported to native Oahu hospitals for additional care.
We are supporting all affected passengers and staff and are persevering with to observe the state of affairs.
After a phenomenal Saturday, the present climate in Hawaii is just not good. A flood advisory is in impact till 2:45 p.m. right this moment for the island of Molokai and till 3 p.m. for each Lanai and Maui on account of extreme rainfall.
At 11:57 a.m., the radar confirmed heavy rain falling at a price of 1 to 2 inches per hour for Maui. Forecasters stated heavy rainfall, with thunderstorms, is predicted to renew early this afternoon.
EMS spokesperson Shayne Enright stated in an e-mail {that a} name got here in right this moment about an arriving Hawaiian Airlines flight that skilled turbulence roughly half-hour earlier than touchdown in Honolulu.
Severe climate warnings right this moment together with a excessive wind warning prompted some storm-related closures.
The flight was scheduled to reach at 10:58 a.m. right this moment at Terminal 1, gate A12, in accordance with Hawaiian Airlines flight standing.