HELENA, MONT.–A Sunwing Airlines flight enroute to Mexico from Edmonton made an emergency landing in Montana on Sunday morning after hitting severe turbulence that injured a flight attendant. Delayed for 5 hours
Flight 559 was early on in the flight when it encountered what was described as about 45 seconds of moderate turbulence followed by about 45 seconds of severe turbulence, said Janine Chapman, a spokeswoman for the Toronto-based airline.
The passengers were wearing their seatbelts at the time but two flight attendants were walking in the cabin when the turbulence occurred, Chapman said.
“The male flight attendant went up in the air and landed and got a small head lesion and the female flight attendant did fall to the ground as well.”
Neither flight attendant needed hospitalization.
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