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 morningโs 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 โflying into the air, hitting the ceiling and landing in the aislesโ.
โA 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 โhorrificโ.
DN quoted Azoresโ Civil protection source Andrรฉ Avelar as โnot knowingโ anything about Essadโs angry tweets.