Today’s serious incident causing serious injuries to Hawaiian Airlines Passengers 30 minutes before landing in Honolulu shows the importance to wear seatbelts on planes.
A Hawaiian Airlines Airbus 330-243 operating HA 35 left Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Sunday morning with 288 people on board. The flight took off at 7.18 am and landed at Honolulu Daniel K Inouye International airport at 10.46 with more than 36 injured passengers, and a broken ceiling.
According to tweets, 11 passengers were seriously injured on this flight due to turbulences.
Some passengers were seen flying out of their seats and several hitting the ceiling, others come knocked unconscious.
The pilot declared an emergency 30 minutes before landing this passenger flight at Honolulu Daniel K Inouye International airport.
The Honolulu Airport Emergency Medical Services reports responding to a “mass casualty emergency,”
Hawaiian Airlines hours later issued this statement on Twitter:
HA35 from PHX to HNL