Qatar Airways staff abandoned passengers after emergency

Doha to Washington Dulles this morning was a routine passenger flight interrupted by a nightmare scenario.

Doha to Washington Dulles this morning was a routine passenger flight interrupted by a nightmare scenario. Chaotic scenes played out at Lajes airbase after a Qatar Airways passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing in this morningโ€™s bad weather over the Azores.

The story was covered by a journalist traveling on the plane, who described how it suddenly lost altitude, sending passengers โ€œflying into the air, hitting the ceiling and landing in the aislesโ€.

โ€œA three year old Lebanese boy flew out of his seat, and landed across the aisle into the lap of an Indian man who held himโ€, wrote Al Jazeera journalist Azad Essa, who described the turbulence as โ€œhorrificโ€.



DN quoted Azoresโ€™ Civil protection source Andrรฉ Avelar as โ€œnot knowingโ€ anything about Essadโ€™s angry tweets.

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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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