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So it wasn’t just a transatlantic passenger who got stuck on the roof of a Boeing en route to Uruguay earlier this week — a child was also trapped up there.
Passenger Dr. Cecilia Laguzzi says it’s an image she’ll never forget… she found her 2-year-old son lodged in the ceiling above the overhead compartment on Monday’s Air Europa flight UX045 from Madrid to Uruguay… after it hit severe turbulence.
Laguzzi told “GMA” that she woke up to what felt like 6 or 7 seconds of free fall before the plane leveled off. In the chaotic aftermath, she began searching for her children, who were sleeping a few seats away with her husband, but her youngest son was missing.
She began searching frantically for him — it wasn’t until someone saw her panicking and said, “Well, it’s up there,” pointing to the ceiling, that she found her son, crying and clearly terrified, trapped in the overhead compartment.
Luckily, some plastic had broken off the compartment, so she and her husband were able to rescue him right away. She said her son seemed fine, and overall her family was a little banged up but otherwise OK.
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A man on the same flight was lucky to be alive after footage showed fellow passengers helping him off the plane after he was thrown up there during turbulence.
The plane was diverted to the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, and the injured passengers were treated at a local hospital.
Needless to say, Boeing has been navigating some rough skies lately, from near misses to tragic fatalities – like the one in May death of a man on a Singapore Airlines flight that also unexpectedly experienced severe turbulence.