A passenger of a enterprise jet was killed when the airplane, which was touring from Keene, N.H., to Leesburg, Va., encountered “extreme turbulence” on Friday, officers mentioned.
The plane, a Bombardier Challenger 300, was carrying two crew members and three passengers and was pressured to land in Windsor Locks, a city about 14 miles north of Hartford, Conn., the Nationwide Transportation Security Board mentioned in an announcement.
Officers haven’t recognized the passenger who died. That individual had been taken from the airport to a close-by hospital, the Connecticut State Police mentioned.
The N.T.S.B. mentioned that investigators had been interviewing the crew, operator and passengers and had eliminated the cockpit voice recorder and flight information recorders from the airplane, which had been secured on the Bradley Worldwide Airport in Windsor Locks.
Sarah Sulick, a spokeswoman for the transportation company, mentioned that it couldn’t launch additional details about the character of the turbulence, the passenger who was killed or any associated accidents, because the investigation remained ongoing.
The dying follows the same incident final week by which seven passengers of a Lufthansa flight touring from Texas to Frankfurt had been hospitalized with accidents after their airplane encountered excessive turbulence. In December, 36 folks had been injured throughout turbulence on a Hawaiian Airways flight from Phoenix to Honolulu.
Although accidents on plane carrying passengers or cargo are unusual, turbulence accounted for greater than a 3rd of such plane accidents from 2009 to 2018, in accordance with a report from the N.T.S.B. Most of these accidents resulted in a number of severe accidents however no plane harm, the company mentioned within the report.
There have been 146 passengers and crew severely injured by turbulence from 2009 to 2021, in accordance with information from the Federal Aviation Administration.