A man was trapped inside an overhead locker during severe turbulence on an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay that was forced to make an emergency landing in Brazil on Monday.
Inside the chaos of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, footage showed a man’s legs dangling from an overhead locker where he appeared to have been lodged during the worst of the weather.
A crowd can be seen helping the frightened passenger down as shouts and cries fill the cabin and belongings lie strewn across the floor with thirty passengers injured in total.
“People who did not have their seat belts unfortunately suffered consequences, injuries,” Daniel Montañez, a passenger, told CNN. “There were people broken, people on the floor, people screaming, people who felt bad, people bleeding.”
“We thought we were going to die there, but thank God it didn’t happen,” another said.
In a statement on Monday, Air Europa said: “The plane has landed normally and those who sustained different types of injuries are already being treated.”