{"id":429070,"date":"2026-05-16T05:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/deeply-traumatized-alaska-airlines-passenger-sues-flight-plunge-crew-bleeding\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:26:22","slug":"deeply-traumatized-alaska-airlines-passenger-sues-after-flight-plunge-left-crew-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429070","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDeeply Traumatized\u201d Alaska Airlines Passenger Sues After Flight Plunge Left Crew Bleeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A past <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span> passenger is suing the airline after a turbulent flight back in December 2024. Natalie Russell was traveling with Alaska from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259745\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/seattle-tacoma-international-airport\/\"  >Seattle-Tacoma International Airport<\/a><\/span> (SEA) to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"293121\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/phoenix-sky-harbor-international-airport\/\"  >Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport<\/a><\/span> (PHX) when the service hit dangerous turbulence, which shook the plane violently, and saw a drop in altitude of around 200 feet (60 meters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit alleges that if the airline knew turbulence was coming, the carrier should have canceled or diverted the flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,516,719,728,10269,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-lawsuit","category-turbulence","category-turbulence-injuries","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429094,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429070\/revisions\/429094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}