Seeing as only just days ago Katie and I flew Calgary to Halifax on WestJet this story kind of hit close to home. Funny I was pissed off that my TV did not work but these people really have something to complain about.

From CBC.ca

Nine passengers on a WestJet flight from Calgary to Halifax were injured Thursday night when a sudden 300-metre drop threw them around like rag dolls, passengers say.

After the flight landed safely at Halifax Stanfield International Airport shortly before 7:30 p.m., three passengers were taken to hospital by ambulance, while six others were treated at the scene.

Hospital officials would not divulge the condition of those brought in, but a nurse aboard the flight said one man had bad lacerations to his head and leg.

Passengers say the pilot warned about the turbulence on the intercom, but many didn’t have time to secure their seatbelts when, seconds later, the plane dropped straight down.

“All of the people rose up in their seats to where they had just been and hit their heads on the roof,” passenger Scott Lacroix, 30, told the Halifax Chronicle Herald.

Those standing were thrown to the floor and around the plane like rag dolls, one passenger said.

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