50 Passengers Hurt, As Aircraft Suddenly Drops In Flight Altitude.

The Chile-based LATAM Airlines, Boeing 787 Dreamliner was en route from Sydney to Auckland on Monday evening when it suddenly dropped in Altitude without warning, throwing some unrestrained passengers out of their seats and smashing others into the cabin ceiling.

“Everyone started screaming, crying,” said Australian receptionist Ellie Addison, one of 263 passengers aboard flight LA800.

“People were thrown out of their seats, there was blood pouring from people’s faces.” Due to the impact.

Auckland ,New Zealand investigators immediately seized the flight recorder after the aircraft landed at Auckland airport.

New Zealand ” accident investigators “said on Tuesday, they had started gathering evidence, “including seizing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders”.

Passenger ” Veronica Martinez” said it felt like the plane had stopped mid-air, and then “we just plunged” down wards to sea.

“People were flying, babies fell from mother’s lap, it was horrible scene, lots of people were injured, and scared to death she told.

Emergency crews raced to Auckland Airport to meet the incoming flight, dispatching more than a dozen ambulances and other medical vehicles.

Support worker Gabriel Felipe de Oliveira Adaime said the flight was “traumatising”, while fellow passenger Agustin Ramonda said it was “one of the worst three seconds of my life”.

Paramedics said they treated about 50 patients. Four people remained in hospital as of Tuesday morning, Health officials told AFP.

The flight arrived on time, LATAM said in a statement.

Passenger Brian Jokat said he spoke to one of the pilots after the plane touched down.

“I asked him ‘what happened?’ and he said to me ‘I lost my instrumentation briefly and then it just came back all of a sudden’,” he told national broadcaster Radio New Zealand.

Air accident safety investigator Joe Hattley told that technical problems were rare in modern aircraft these days.

“That flight record will be key to understanding this event,” said Hattley, who also teaches at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

The seized ” Black Box” is send for technical analysis to find out what exactly happened at that moment in flight.