Severe turbulence on the packed flight resulted in three flight attendants being thrown into the air, hospitalizing them and others being injured.
Paramedics arrived at Sydney Airport when Delta Airlines flight DL41 landed at Sydney Airport at 6.45am on Friday.
Three cabin crew were taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for further treatment.
Five other people were treated at the scene for back pain, headache and knee pain.
It is understood that an elderly passenger is also among the injured.
A Delta spokesperson tells 7News the flight from Los Angeles to Sydney experienced “a brief period of turbulence.”
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“Nothing is more important than the safety of our people and our customers and our priority is to care for the affected crew members,” he said.
The Airbus A350 was carrying 245 passengers and 15 crew members.
It comes after a British Airways stewardess who was thrown into the air during turbulence is suing her for £72,000 after claiming the pilot flew into a “danger zone”.
56 year old Laura Lanigan was very troubled after BA boeing The 777 suffered a “violent fall” over Mumbai, IndiaIn June 2019.
The experienced stewardess claimed she was thrown into the air and back onto the floor – fracturing her knee and dislocating her shoulder – with an unsecured drinks canister also falling on top of her.
Lanigan is now suing the airline for £72,500, claiming her accident was caused by the pilot flying too close to a storm cloud.
He said the pilot should have seen signs of a nearby cumulonimbus cloud – a “large, dark storm cloud” – and taken steps to stay more than 20 miles away from it.
But BA claims there was no visual evidence of storm clouds and nothing on the pilots’ weather radar to suggest so.
Company barrister Peter Savory said that instead, an operating officer on the flight deck had reported only “flowery white clouds” in the sky.
Central London County Court heard that the plane was approaching the end of a nine-hour journey from London Heathrow to Mumbai when Lanigan was hit.
Her lawyers said there was “mild to moderate” turbulence at the end of the flight and that passenger seat belt warning signals had been activated.
But shortly before the plane landed, it suffered an even more intense blow – Lanigan was thrown into the air and crashed back down.
