Hawaiian Airlines

Eleven people are seriously hurt after a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu encountered severe turbulence shortly before landing.

The Boeing 777-200 was diverted to Honolulu, where the injured received treatment. Thirty people were taken to hospitals and nine had serious injuries. The plane’s flight data recorder would provide those details, he said. The fasten-seat belts sign was on at the time, though some of those injured weren’t wearing them, he said. Air traffic controllers gave the flight priority to land. Most people associate turbulence with heavy storms. “Just all around me, there were people crying.” “We are also very happy, and we feel fortunate that there were not any deaths or other critical injuries. “It was just rocky,” she told KHON-TV. Twenty people were taken to hospitals, including 11 in serious condition. The airline was aware of the weather forecast and the unstable air and weather conditions, but had no warning that the particular patch of air where the turbulence occurred “was in any way dangerous,” Snook said. “I was grabbing the seat in front of me, the top of it, to hang on, even though I had my seat belt on,” she said.