Lufthansa Boeing 747 passengers injured along with five crew during turbulence

Five Lufthansa passengers and six crew members were injured after encountering “brief but severe turbulence” during a flight between Buenos Aires in Argentina and Frankfurt in Germany. According to a Lufthansa spokesperson, the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8, registered D-ABYP, suffered turbulence while flying through an Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) on November 12, 2024. The five passengers…

​On November 11, 2024, Lufthansa Flight LH511, a Boeing 747-8 registered as D-ABYP, departed from Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza-Ministro Pistarini Airport (EZE) bound for Frankfurt International Airport (FRA). The flight, carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members, encountered severe turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean while traversing an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), a region notorious for sudden…