Twelve people traveling on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Ireland have been injured due to turbulence experienced during the journey, as reported this Sunday by Dublin airport. From there it has been added that the plane landed safely and as scheduled.

This is flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which landed shortly before one o’clock in the afternoon in Dublin. The airport of the Irish capital has assured that “upon landing, the plane was received by emergency servicesincluding airport police and the fire and rescue department, as six passengers and six crew members on board reported injuries after the plane experienced turbulence while flying over Turkey.”

The Irish radio station RTE has collected the testimonies of some of the passengers upon their arrival at the airport. In them they say that the incident lasted less than 20 seconds and it occurred while food and beverage service was being provided.

For its part, Qatar Airways said in a statement that a “small number” of passengers and crew had suffered minor injuries during the flight and were receiving medical attention. Although not directly reporting turbulenceassure that the matter is subject to an internal investigation.

The incident took place five days after a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore was forced to land in Bangkok due to severe turbulence, which killed a 73-year-old British man and left 20 others in intensive care.

Turbulence-related airline accidents are the most common type, according to a 2021 study by the National Transportation Safety Board. And from 2009 to 2018, this agency has found that turbulence accounted for more than a third of reported air accidents and, in fact, most caused one or more serious injuries, although not damage to the planes.