At least 15 injured by turbulence on a Lima-Buenos Aires flight

capture of a video recorded by pbadengers during the incident / web

At least 15 pbadengers suffered minor injuries during a severe turbulence on a flight from the Avianca company that provided the connection between Lima and Buenos Aires, sources said the airline and pbadengers.

The incident occurred at dawn yesterday around 1430, when the Airbus 330 aircraft that flew AV965 crossed an area of ​​turbulence in the Andes, on the border between Chile and Mexico. Argentina, has been reported to Avianca.

The company stated that it had acted "following established protocols" and that "the crew had continued the flight to Ezeiza airport, where the aircraft had landed without problems and where the crew and the pbadengers were in good health, although five of them suffered from minor illnesses.

"These climate events are common on the road, so our teams are ready to handle them," they explained.

However, one of the pbadengers, doctor and caregiver of the injured, Stella Cuevas, said in televised statements that "there was severe turbulence, as at 2:30 am." The plane went up and down three times at about 200 or 300 meters. "

And he revealed that "it was a horrible experience, they asked for doctors and the only ones available were my husband and I. The plane had no kit, no cotton gloves, we improvised something with bags to serve as gloves, to help the pbadengers. "

"Fifteen pbadengers were hit, mostly under what was called a" badlash "before the plane jumped in. Some also suffered minor cuts, bumps and vomiting," he said. said Cuevas.

Upon their arrival at Ezeiza airport, paramedics entered the aircraft to help the affected people, while the doctor said that the landing and the rest of the trip were "normal".

Similarly, Ricardo and Silvana, two Argentine pbadengers who traveled in the plane, said that as a result of the turbulence, "the plane was a chaos, things collapsed and the people shouted ".

Ricardo counted, in this sense, that he thought: "here, we kill each other" and described the episode as "a movie of action in which the plane is about to fall and in the end he does not fall. "