File photo of a Bombardier plane (REUTERS)

A private plane was rocked last Friday by strong turbulence in regards to New England, Northeastern United States, causing the death of a passenger and forcing the aircraft to divert to the Bradley International Airport, Connecticut.

Five people were on board of the Bombardier aircraft as it drove through turbulence Friday afternoon on a flight from Keene, New Hampshire, to Leesburg, Virginia, said Sarah Sulick, a spokeswoman for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday. of the United States (acronym in English).

The extent of the damage to the aircraft was unclear and the NTSB did not provide details, including If the victim was wearing a seat belt.

The executive plane is owned by Conexon, a Kansas City, Missouri-based company, according to the Federal Aviation Administration database. The company, which brings high-speed internet to rural communities, declined to comment on Saturday.

NTSB agents were interviewing the two crew members and the surviving passengers. as part of an investigation into the deadly turbulence encounter, Sulick said. The aircraft’s cockpit voice and data recorders were sent to NTSB headquarters for analysis.

The NTSB announced on Twitter that it was investigating "the episode of turbulence which occurred on March 3 in a Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft which diverted to the locks of Windsor (Connecticut) and caused fatal injuries to a passenger"
The NTSB tweeted that it was investigating “the March 3 turbulence episode in a Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft that diverted to Windsor Locks, Conn. and resulted in fatal injury to a passenger.”

Turbulence, that is, the instability of air in the atmosphere, continues to be a cause of injury for air passengers, despite improvements in air safety over the years.

Earlier this week, seven people were injured enough to be taken to hospitals after a Lufthansa Airbus A330 experienced turbulence on a flight from Texas to Germany. The plane was diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

But deaths are extremely rare. “I don’t remember the last turbulence fatality,” says Robert Sumwalt, former NTSB chairman and executive director of the Center for Air and Aerospace Safety at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

According to the NTSB, turbulence was responsible for more than a third of accidents on the largest commercial airlines between 2009 and 2018.

With information from AP

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