(CNN) — A LATAM Airways aircraft was broken touring from Santiago, Chile, to Asunción, Paraguay, and needed to make an emergency touchdown at Silvio Pettirossi Worldwide Airport on Wednesday after experiencing “extreme climate situations throughout its flight path,” the airline instructed CNN in an announcement on Thursday.
“Passengers and crew are protected and nicely,” the assertion stated, including the airline regretted “any inconvenience this climate scenario could have triggered to its passengers.”
Telefuturo, a CNN affiliate, reported that 48 folks have been touring on the flight.
The photographs obtained by the station present the broken plane with its nostril lacking and its windshield smashed.
The Common Directorate of Civil Aviation of Chile reported in an announcement Thursday that the Paraguayan aviation authorities have initiated an investigation and {that a} group of specialists from the Chilean entity “shall be built-in on the bottom to collaborate with this investigative course of.”
CNN en Español reached out to the Paraguayan Nationwide Directorate of Civil Aeronautics on Thursday for extra data however has not but acquired a response.
Scary flight for passenger
“Close to Asunción the horrible turbulence started and folks already began to panic after which the pilot tells us to organize for an emergency touchdown,” passenger Pabla Thomen instructed a personal radio station, Monumental AM 1080, on Thursday.
Thomen added that she acquired scared and hugged her daughter in the course of the turbulence and at one level her seat belt got here undone. She was in a position to put her seat belt again on with the assistance of one other passenger.
The lady additionally indicated within the phone interview that at one level she was “saying goodbye to her daughter, telling her that she cherished her, adored her and that they might at all times be collectively.”
Prime picture: This LATAM aircraft landed with nostril harm in Paraguay. (From Telefuturo)