Last Wednesday, Delta Airlines flight DL56 between Salt Lake City and Amsterdam on an Airbus A330-900neo (registration N422DZ) encountered severe turbulence over an area of southwest Wyoming. The incident forced the pilot to make an emergency landing at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, particularly as several passengers on board suffered injuries.
Panic on board, “the anxiety escalated. During the descent, the captain spoke again, he told us there were only six minutes left before impact. He was quite reassuring and he handled the landing well”, said one of the passengers on the flight.
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This is also what was reported in the american press on the same day. The Delta Airlines website indicated that “an emergency landing procedure at Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport was initiated at approximately 00:55 UTC”.
Among the 275 passengers on board, 25 were injured and rushed to the hospital by medical teams after the flight landed. The other passengers were able to disembark safely, but were traumatized after feeling as if the plane was about to crash into the ground.”