Severe turbulence scares passengers on flight from Mallorca to Zurich. Swiss Airlines has apologized.
Travelers will not soon forget this flight with Zurich – Swiss Air. The plane from Mallorca (Spain) was about to land in Zurich (Switzerland) when more than 100,000 lightning strikes and winds of 100 km/h hit Switzerland on Thursday. The flight was already delayed by 20 minutes due to the storm in Zurich.
Reader Correspondent of Swiss Portal blick.ch Sitting on this plane, then anxious minutes and reports of panic on board. “It was opaque outside and the plane was abandoned,” he says. Passengers exclaimed that a young woman even suffocated.
Panic on Mallorca flight during storm turbulence: “Everyone wanted to get off the plane”
Turbulence reportedly lasted for ten minutes, but then the landing went smoothly. The entire plane claps and reports to the reader, telling of relieved passengers. “Everybody wanted to get off the plane.”
What struck a frequent traveler on the Mallorca-Zurich route: the plane did not fly over France as usual, but over Italy. As the Swiss later explained, the aim was to fly around an active thunderstorm cell. “The safety of everyone on board is always a priority,” explained media spokesperson Michael Belzer. blick.ch. Swiss is a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. Recently there was an incident with the German flag. Suddenly she had to The Lufthansa crew declared a flight emergency.
Swiss Airlines apologizes after Mallorca-Zurich flight
the sea blick.ch On behalf of the airline, he apologized to shocked passengers: “We deeply regret that there were some apparently violent reactions on this flight. We fully understand that weather conditions like this can make you uncomfortable at times.
However, Belzer also clarified that takeoff and landing can be carried out normally. According to the media spokesperson, the planes will bear “much greater loads” than the storm in and around Zurich.
A friend of the reader reporter plans to fly back to Mallorca next week. However, after events, she may reconsider. The fact that Mallorca airport was completely destroyed a few days ago after a passenger threatened to use explosives is certainly not encouraging.
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