{"id":419148,"date":"2021-06-08T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419148"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:16:31","slug":"mumbai-kolkata-vistara-flight-hits-severe-turbulence-injures-eight-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-kolkata-vistara-flight-hits-severe-turbulence-injures-eight-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai-Kolkata Vistara flight hits severe turbulence, injures eight passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight passengers on Vistara&#8217;s Mumbai-Kolkata flight were injured on Monday as the aircraft encountered severe turbulence just before landing, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kolkata Airport Director, &#8220;8 passengers including 3 suffered major injuries after Vistara&#8217;s Mumbai-Kolkata flight hit turbulence. The 3 passengers with major injuries shifted to a local hospital in Kolkata.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Vistara said,&#8221; Flight UK775 operating Mumbai-Kolkata on June 7 faced severe turbulence 15 minutes before landing, causing injuries to a few passengers, who were given first aid during flight and medical assistance upon arrival in Kolkata. We&#8217;re investigating the incident on priority.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The five passengers who received minor injuries were sent to their destination after being administered first aid, the airport director said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight passengers on Vistara&#8217;s Mumbai-Kolkata flight were injured on Monday as the aircraft encountered severe turbulence just before landing, officials said. According to Kolkata Airport Director, &#8220;8 passengers including 3 suffered major injuries after Vistara&#8217;s Mumbai-Kolkata flight hit turbulence. The 3 passengers with major injuries shifted to a local hospital in Kolkata.&#8221; A spokesperson from Vistara said,&#8221; Flight UK775 operating Mumbai-Kolkata on June 7 faced severe turbulence 15 minutes before landing, causing injuries to a few passengers, who were given first aid during flight and medical assistance upon arrival in Kolkata. We&#8217;re investigating the incident on priority.&#8221; The five passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}