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Passengers on an Air India flight have been left shaken after an inside part of a window panel fell off due to violent turbulence.
- Air India are investigating after the internal window fell from the frame due to turbulence
- Passengers experienced more than 10 minutes of severe turbulence during the flight
- Three passengers were injured as a results, one needed stitches to their head
The Boeing 787 was travelling from Amritsar and Delhi last Thursday when it experienced more than 10 minutes of turbulence, The Times of India reported.
Footage shows a flight attendant pushing the internal window panel back into place and reassuring an audibly distressed passenger at the window seat.
Three passengers were reportedly injured and taken to hospital upon arriving in Delhi, a senior Air India official told local media.
One passenger received stitches after hitting their head on the overhead panel, while other two were treated for minor injuries.
"This was a freak high level turbulence. AI and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing it," a senior Air India official said.
The incident occurred just one day after a woman was killed when she was partially sucked out of a broken plane window after the engine blew out.
Topics: air-transport, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, occupational-health-and-safety, air-and-space, india
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