5 passengers injured after severe turbulence on United flight
(NewsNation) — A United Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Waco, Texas, on Sunday evening after experiencing severe turbulence that injured five people on board, according to media reports.
NBC News wrote that SkyWest flight 5690, which had been operating as United Express, which is in United Airlines' regional flight service network, took off from Missouri's Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri at 4:48 p.m. C.T. It was headed to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, per data on FlightAware.com.
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While in the air, the plane, a Bombardier CRJ-200, started getting turbulence that hurt five passengers, causing it to land at Waco Regional Airport, SkyWest Airlines said in a statement to NBC. There were 29 passengers and three crew members, NBC wrote. The five people injured were taken to the hospital, SkyWest's statement said.
'Medical personnel met and evaluated passengers, and five passengers were transported to the hospital,' SkyWest told NBC. 'SkyWest and United are making sure all customers get the care they need and dispatched another aircraft to fly the customers from Waco to Houston.'
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