5 United passengers injured in severe turbulence

A level bound for Houston landed successful Waco connected Sunday, arsenic a effect of turbulence that sent 5 radical to the hospital.

United Airlines formation 5690, operated by SkyWest connected a CRJ-200, near Springfield, Missouri, conscionable earlier 5 p.m. and landed successful Waco conscionable earlier 6:30 p.m., according to formation tracking website FlightAware.  

"Medical unit met and evaluated passengers, and 5 passengers were transported to the infirmary with insignificant injuries," SkyWest said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "SkyWest and United are making definite each customers get the attraction they request and dispatched different craft to alert the customers from Waco to Houston."

The turbulence was a effect of beardown storms successful the Dallas-Fort Worth area, FOX 26 Houston reported. The section TV presumption added that the level had 31 radical onboard, 28 of them passengers.

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A United Express pitchy (Bombardier CRJ 200ER) arrives astatine the gross astatine Denver International Airport successful Denver, Colo., connected Jan. 19, 2014.  (Robert Alexander)

Media outlets successful Waco reported that aggregate flights had to beryllium diverted to the cardinal Texas metropolis connected Sunday arsenic a effect of weather-induced turbulence. 

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Passengers cheque successful for United Airlines flights astatine O'Hare International Airport connected January 23, 2024 successful Chicago, Illinois. United Airlines referred remark astir the formation impacted by turbulence to relation SkyWest. (Scott Olson)

In this photograph illustration the SkyWest Airlines logo is seen displayed connected a smartphone.  (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket)

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Waco is 90 miles northbound of the authorities superior metropolis of Austin and 90 miles southbound of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.