A Delta plane encountered severe turbulence while approaching Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Tuesday and had to take eleven people to the hospital after landing.
The Airbus A350 that took off from Milan, Italy, landed safely shortly before 7 p.m. after hitting turbulence about 40 miles northeast of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. According to the airline, the plane was carrying 151 passengers and 14 crew members.
The injured included both customers and crew members of Delta Flight 175. It was not immediately clear how many of each were hurt or how serious their injuries were.
It was the latest in a series of incidents this year in which people were injured when their flights hit severe turbulence.
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In March, one person died when a Bombardier CL30 jet encountered severe turbulence while flying from Dillant-Hopkins Airport in New Hampshire to Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia. This flight had to be diverted to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
In another incident in March, several people were hospitalized after a Lufthansa flight from Austin to Frankfurt, Germany, encountered turbulence and was forced to make an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
A day later, around 20 passengers and crew members were injured due to turbulence on a Condor flight from Frankfurt to Mauritius.
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