This is the moment a passenger is pulled out from the overhead bin after an Air Europa flight was hit by severe turbulence.
The shocking cell phone video the man’s feet dangling out of the compartment and being helped to the ground by two passengers before flight UX045, which was traveling from Madrid, Spain to Montevideo, Uruguay, was diverted and made an emergency landing in Natal, Brazil on Monday.
A two-year-old child was also pulled out from the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s ceiling after the turbulence was over.
The incident left 30 passengers with head, facial and spinal injuries. At least 23 passengers were rushed to Monsenhor Walfredo Gurgel Hospital.
Dr. Cecília Lagucci, a Bolivian national, was traveling with her husband and two children – her two-year-old son was ejected from his seat by the aircraft’s violent movement and trapped in the ceiling.