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Turbulence Sends Flight to Lake Charles with Injured Flight Crew


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What: United Airlines Boeing 737-700 en route from Houston to New York
Where: Lake Charles Regional Airport
When: June 12, 2012 9 pm
Who: 88 passengers 3 injured
Why: While flight attendants were about to serve drinks when the flight encountered severe turbulence that slammed them into the ceiling of the plane, then the floor.

Three members of the flight crew were injured during the flight, one of them seriously.

Pilots diverted to Lake Charles Regional Airport where the injured were taken to Lake Charles Memorial Hospital.

In George’s Point of View


They really have to come up with science that sees all upcoming turbulence, so the plane can avoid it before something really bad happens.

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