Passengers Shocked as They Are Thrown Around the Cabin After Plane Hits Rare, Deadly 'clean Air Turbulence'

A plane cabin was left in a mess with passengers bruised and some with nosebleeds after the plane was hit by severe turbulence. Around 15 passengers were injured in the incident and eight had to be hospitalized. 

Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR1303 which was flying from Miami to Buenos Aires with 192 passengers on board was met with extreme turbulence as it was flying over western Brazil. Passengers were forced to live through their worst nightmare on the flight and many took to Twitter to share images and videos of their terrifying experience. 

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In one picture, food trays and litter can be seen strewn all over the aisle. A video clip taken shows a man holding a bloody tissue after suffering from a nosebleed. Oxygen masks were seen hanging from the ceiling along with fallen trolleys with food spilling out of them. A curtain that separates the gallery from the cabin is seen hanging from the ceiling. 

After passing through the severe turbulence, the flight flew to Ezeiza International Airport in the Argentine capital. Eight of the injured passengers were taken to the hospital. Aerolineas Argentinas released a statement saying that the turbulence occurred during the 'cruise' phase of the flight. The airline mentioned that some of the passengers suffered bruises while the cabin crew did everything in their power to help passengers once the turbulence died down. 

Earlier, a UK-based pilot told DailyMail that there are two types of turbulence and people are most unnerved by clear air turbulence. The pilot shared, "The sort of turbulence that people often get anxious about is clear air turbulence, which is often what happens at high altitude. And that's associated with the intercontinental jet streams that circle the globe". 

"And where these jet streams collide, obviously is determined by weather patterns. And when they collide it creates ripples in the air. And that's what clear air turbulence is. Because we have a lot of people now who fly an awful lot, sometimes they're a bit casual about whether they should return to their seats and put their seatbelts on, and people think it's a bit of a drag, but there will be that one time in a hundred when it suddenly becomes really important to be in your seat," the pilot said.

Parts Of Plane Found Resemble The Plane Missing On Bermuda Triangle -COAST GUARD

The search of a debris field in the Bermuda Triangle yielded “confirmed components” of the type of small plane that went missing Monday afternoon with four passengers, including a Manhattan CEO with ties to Southold and her two young sons, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday.

Part of a seat and an air intake plug were found, the Coast Guard said, as the search for survivors continued Wednesday morning. A swimmer was lowered by helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean to collect debris and a Coast Guard cutter patrolled the area.









The debris was discovered by a Clearwater, Florida-based Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter crew Tuesday afternoon about 15 miles east of Eleuthera, Bahamas.

The passengers on the twin-engine Mitsubishi bound for Florida from Puerto Rico were identified as Jennifer Blumin, 40, her 3- and 4-year-old sons, and Nathan Ulrich, 52, of Lee, New Hampshire. Communications were lost on Monday afternoon while the plane was about 37 miles east of Eleuthera, the U.S. Coast Guard said, and Ulrich was listed as the pilot.

“Parts in the debris field appear to be from that airplane. We believe it’s debris from the plane,” Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Woodall said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
The Coast Guard had been searching for the plane since Miami air traffic control reported it had lost radio and radar contact at 2:10 p.m. Monday.

On Tuesday at about 3:30 p.m., the helicopter crew found the debris field.

The plane was traveling at a speed of about 300 knots and was 24,000 feet above the ground when it lost contact with air traffic control, the Coast Guard said. The trip began in Borinquen, Puerto Rico, at about 11 a.m., the Coast Guard said, and the travelers were headed for Titusville, Florida.

Blumin is the founder and chief executive of Skylight Group, a Manhattan firm that finds venues for top fashion shows.

“We can confirm that the plane carrying Jennifer Blumin and members of her family has gone missing after taking off from Puerto Rico yesterday,” a company official said in an email statement Tuesday. “Her family is working with investigators and we politely ask that you respect their privacy at this time.”


The 10-seat plane is registered to Ithaca Consulting, which is listed as having the same Southold address where records also show Blumin and James Ramsey own a home.


Ramsey is a Manhattan architect and principal of the design studio Raad. He was not available for comment through his firm.

Ulrich owns Xootr LLC, which makes scooters and is also the technical director of Radon Sport LLC, which works on race cars, according to his LinkedIn page.

“We are currently monitoring the case and coordinating with the Coast Guard and Civil Air Patrol,” a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said by email.

If the plane came down in international waters, the NTSB likely would lead the investigation; if it plummeted into Bahamian territorial waters, that country might serve that role.
James Ramsey and Jennifer Blumin at home on White Street in New York on Feb.10, 2015, with the couple's sons, Phineas, 2, and Theodore, 8 months in Mr. Ramsey's arm.Jennifer Blumin, 40, her 3- and 4-year-old sons, and Nathan Ulrich, 52, of Lee, New Hampshire were aboard a twin-engine Mitsubishi when communications were lost while it was about 37 miles east of Eleuthera on May 16, 2017. A "debris field" has been located in the Bermuda Triangle by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew searching for a small plane with four passengers, including Blumin, an Manhattan CEO with ties to Southold and her two young sons, officials said on Tuesday. Photo Credit: Laura Moss for the New York Times

The Coast Guard said it deployed a C-130 Hercules airplane crew to search for the overdue plane on Monday. On Tuesday, it said it sent out another C-130 Hercules airplane and the Jayhawk helicopter crew to continue the search.

71 Persons Dead in A Plane Carrying Brazilian Soccer Team That Crashes in Colombia

Seventy-five of the 81 passengers aboard a plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team were killed Tuesday when the aircraft crashed while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, authorities in Colombia said.

The chartered British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by LaMia, declared an emergency at 10 p.m. Monday because of an electrical failure, aviation officials said. The plane had departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and was carrying the Chapecoense soccer team to Medellin’s Jose Maria Cordova airport.






The southern Brazilian squad was set to play Wednesday in the first of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin. The tournament features some of the top soccer teams in South America.

"It's a tragedy of huge proportions," Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez told Blu Radio, later adding: “What was supposed to be a celebration has turned into a tragedy.”

The soccer club said in a statement posted on Facebook that "may God accompany our athletes, officials, journalists and other guests traveling with our delegation."

Alfredo Bocanegra, the head of Colombia's aviation authority, said initial reports suggest the aircraft was suffering electrical problems although investigators were also looking into an account from one of the survivors that the plane had run out of fuel about 5 minutes from its expected landing at Jose Maria Cordova airport outside Medellin.



A video published on the team's Facebook page showed the team readying for the flight earlier Monday in Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport. It wasn't immediately clear if the team switched planes in Bolivia or just made a stopover with the same plane.

Brazil as well as South America's soccer federation extended its condolences to the entire Chapecoense community and said its president, Alejandro Dominguez, was on his way to Medellin. All soccer activities were suspended until further notice, the organization said in a statement.

Elkin Ospina, mayor of La Ceja, near where the crash took place, said rescuers working through the night had been heartened after pulling three passengers alive from the wreckage.

Authorities and rescuers were immediately activated but an air force helicopter had to turn back because of low visibility. Heavy rainfall complicated the nighttime search, and authorities urged journalists to stay off the roads so ambulances and other rescuers could reach the site.

Images broadcast on local television stations showed at least three male passengers arriving to a local hospital in an ambulance on stretchers and covered in blankets and connected to an IV. All were apparently alive and one of them was reportedly a Chapecoense defender named Alan Ruschel.

The plane was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members, aviation authorities said in a statement. Local radio said the same aircraft transported Argentina's national squad for a match earlier this month in Brazil, and previously had transported Venezuela's national team.

"This morning I said goodbye to them and they told me they were going after the dream, turning that dream into reality," a Chapecoense board member told TV Globo. "The dream was over early this morning."

The team, from the small city of Chapeco, was in the middle of a fairy tale season. Rising through the ranks of Brazil's soccer leagues, it joined the country's top division in 2014 for the first time since the 1970s and made it last week to the Copa Sudamericana finals after defeating two of Argentina's fiercest squads, San Lorenzo and Independiente, as well as Colombia's Junior.

The team is so modest that its 22,000-seat arena was ruled by tournament organizers too small to host the final match, which was instead moved to a stadium 300 miles to the north in the city of Curitiba.

"Chapecoense was the biggest source of happiness in the town," the club's vice-president, Ivan Tozzo, told Brazil's SporTV. "Many in the town are crying."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.