Fifty hurt as jet hit by “technical” issue

Fifty people were hurt and 12 were taken to hospital after a plane travelling from Australia to New Zealand experienced a mid-air “technical event”

Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
AUSTRALIA
Sydney, 11:44am local time: Plane departs
Mar 11: Boeing 787 flight from Sydney to Auckland, operated by Chilean airline LATAM, experiences sudden loss of altitude about two hours into three-hour flight. People injured after hitting roof,
some thrown around plane

TASMAN SEA
PACIFIC OCEAN
Auckland, 4:26pm local time: Plane lands. Scheduled to fly on to Santiago, Chile
NEW ZEALAND

400km 250 miles

Sources: Flightaware, Reuters
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