10 hurt on AC flight

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CALGARY – An Air Canada flight from Victoria to Toronto was transformed into a terrifying white-knuckle roller-coaster today that saw the big jet plunge, pitch and yaw, tossing passengers, dishes and a cart about the cabin.

Article here.

 

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More on the incident from The Toronto Star.

From the article:
What caused the aircraft to plunge so suddenly was unknown. Canada's Transportation Safety Board was investigating but said it was too soon to determine whether the "control problems" were caused by turbulence, mechanical problems or a mistake by the flight crew.

"They came on the intercom and explained they were flying manually and that the computer had been knocked out. And I don't know if it was knocked out before, and that caused the lurch, or it was knocked out after, because of the plane lurching back and forth."

The flight attendants were amazing, because a lot of them were injured themselves so they had cuts and were trying to dab blood out of their eyes," said Harvey. She described one flight attendant rushing down the aisle of the plane with a cloth pressed to her bleeding forehead as she came to the assistance of injured passengers.

One woman, speaking to reporters outside the Calgary airport, said she was sitting in first class when one side of the plane "went up sort of sideways and then came back down." Her friend was one of those rushed to hospital after flying up and hitting the ceiling.

According to a preliminary Transport Canada account of yesterday's incident, the pilots advised air traffic controllers of an "aircraft upset" that resulted in the Airbus's sudden manoeuvres.

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