Eleven people were injured due to turbulence on a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt which landed on Tuesday morning, the German airline said. The Boeing 747-8 aircraft had taken off from Buenos Aires when it was suddenly caught in severe turbulence due to air currents over the Atlantic.

The Boeing 747-8 aircraft had taken off from Buenos Aires in Argentina when it encountered severe turbulence over the Atlantic due to air currents

Chaos engulfed a Lufthansa flight from Argentina to Germany during severe turbulence. Five passengers and six crew members suffered injuries as the Boeing 747-8 was thrown around by powerful air pockets over the Atlantic this morning.

Eleven people have been left injured after a Lufthansa flight was hit by turbulence. The Boeing 747-8 aircraft, which was heading to Frankfurt in Germany, had taken off from Buenos Aires, Argentina, when it later encountered brief, severe turbulence over the Atlantic due to air currents.

Eleven people were injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt hit severe turbulence while travelling over the Atlantic, the airline said on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, five passengers and six crew members suffered mostly minor injuries," a Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters in an email, confirming a report by the DPA news agency.

Eleven people were injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt hit severe turbulence while travelling over the Atlantic, Reuters reported, citing the airlines. According to Lufthansa, the Boeing 747-8 was carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members. The turbulence was brief and occurred in an intertropical convergence zone.

A Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt encountered severe turbulence over the Atlantic, injuring eleven people.

Eleven people were injured on a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt after it hit severe turbulence over the Atlantic, though the plane safely landed in Frankfurt where the injured received medical attention.