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CBS News
5 days ago
- Climate
- CBS News
Flight hit by violent turbulence, forcing emergency landing in Germany and injuring 9 people
Severe storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board, German police said in a statement Thursday. The flight, traveling from Berlin to Milan with 179 passengers and six crew members, encountered turbulence so intense around 8:30 p.m. that the pilot was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Memmingen Airport in Bavaria, a region of southern Germany. Eight passengers and one crew member were hurt. Three people were taken to the hospital in Memmingen for treatment; the other injured people were released after receiving outpatient treatment. As a precaution, all passengers were checked for injuries by the emergency services. Authorities did not permit the plane to continue flying, and the airline arranged bus transport for passengers. Milan is about 236 miles south of Memmingen. It's the latest in a string of notable incidents where severe turbulence has grounded planes and injured or even killed passengers. A Scandinavian Airlines flight from Sweden to Miami had to turn around and return to Europe after hitting turbulence over Greenland in November last year. No injuries were reported, but photos showed debris scattered around the plane's interior. Earlier last year, over 100 passengers were injured and one was killed when a Singapore Airlines flight hit clear-air turbulence while flying from London to Singapore. The flight was diverted to Bangkok, where some passengers were hospitalized. Turbulence is more common in the warmer summer months, Taylor Garland, spokesperson for the Association of Flight Attendants, told CBS News in 2022. Passengers can stay safe by listening to pilots and flight attendants and staying seated and buckled in when the seatbelt sign is on, Garland said. "That seatbelt sign comes on for a reason. You should not be up or going to the bathroom," Garland said. "That sign is on for your safety, but some passengers may think 'Oh, I'll be fine,' but with turbulence, you can injure yourself and other people around you." Elsewhere in southern Germany, storms damaged several homes in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, according to the German news agency dpa. In the Donaustetten district, strong winds tore roofs off multiple row houses, rendering them uninhabitable, though no injuries were reported. Fire officials suspect a small tornado or waterspout caused the damage. The German Weather Service is investigating, according to dpa. Storm-related emergency calls also came from other areas in southern Germany, where damage was mostly limited to fallen trees and flooded basements. The weather service warned of further storms Thursday, with hail, strong winds, and localized heavy rain expected.
New York Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Ryanair passenger's bizarre sleeping position is a shocker: ‘Extremely dangerous'
Is it a Ryan-air mattress? Catching sleep at 30,000 feet might seem impossible. However, one enterprising Ryanair passenger has devised an unorthodox way to grab some shuteye in the sky despite cramped onboard conditions, as observed in a TikTok video with 2.7 million views. The footage, filmed by another traveler seated behind the subject, pans to a man who has adopted a chair-like position, but his back is level on the floor, and his legs and socked feet are propped on his seat at a 90-degree angle. Advertisement His face, meanwhile, is under the seat in front of him where his carry-on bags would normally go, essentially recreating business-class legroom in economy. 3 The passenger hits the deck and adopts an unorthodox — and possibly dangerous — sleeping position. TikTok / @vsimpadel The mile-high contortionist remained in the topsy-turvy sleeping pose for the entire three-hour flight, according to the caption, in which the uploader quipped, 'This can happen only if you fly with Ryanair.' Advertisement 3 Many commenters felt that the passenger was asking for a head injury. TikTok / @vsimpadel 3 'This can happen only if you fly with Ryanair,' the uploader quipped in the caption to the clip. Alberto Brevers/Pacific Press/Shutterstock The Post has reached out to Ryanair for comment. The would-be napper's inverted seating position divided commenters, with one joking, 'He was probably the only comfortable person in the plane.' Advertisement 'He might be onto something here,' admitted another fan. 'He probably has back pain,' said a third. 'That's pretty smart.' However, others claimed that the flyer's nap hack was 'extremely dangerous,' not to mention unsanitary. Advertisement 'On the back of his head is the place of thousands of toilet shoe bottoms,' said one critic, while another wrote, 'Things that will never happen: me voluntarily touching an airplane floor with any skin.' 'Turbulence > Brain injury,' warned a third, while someone else quipped, 'If the person in front farts, he's done.' In 2020, Taylor Garland, spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, warned that turbulence can turn an unfastened passenger into a 'projectile.' According to the Federal Aviation Administration, rough skies are the number one cause of injuries to passengers and crew members on commercial airlines. Meanwhile, a total of 34 passengers and 129 crew members were seriously injured due to the phenomenon from 2009 to 2022, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. In 2012, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary controversially told the Telegraph that 'seatbelts don't matter' as they wouldn't save passengers in the event of 'a crash on an aircraft.' Advertisement Last year, a 73-year-old British traveler died after an aircraft plunged 6,000 feet during a bout of turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore.
