Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
A passenger has told NBC News of the dramatic incident that saw people aboard a Boeing flight thrown into the ceiling, as authorities probed what caused the plane's sudden mid-air plunge. More than a dozen people were rushed to the hospital on Monday and at least 50 injured after a LATAM airlines flight traveling from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand experienced a “strong shake,” officials said.
Emergency services treated about 50 patients, 12 of whom were taken to the hospital, New Zealand’s emergency medical service provider Hato Hone St John Ambulance, said in a statement Monday. The airline said most of those were discharged shortly after and that only two people needed medical attention “but without any life-threatening risks.
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