Seven people on Lufthansa flight from Texas to Germany were taken to hospitals Wednesday after the plane experienced “significant turbulence” and diverted to a Washington, D.C., area airport, officials said.
Lufthansa Flight 469 was flying from Austin to Frankfurt when it encountered the turbulence and landed at Dulles International Airport, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said.
The plane landed safely at the airport at 9:12 p.m., the agency said.
Lufthansa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Seven passengers were transported to hospitals, the authority said. Their conditions were not immediately released.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that crew reported encountering severe turbulence around 37,000 feet, while the aircraft was over Tennessee. The FAA will investigate the incident.
Turbulence, which the National Weather Service describes as irregular motion of the air resulting from eddies and vertical currents, sometimes sends passengers to hospitals and forces unexpected landings.
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