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Matthew McConaughey, wife Camila Alves ‘dropped almost 4,000 feet’ onboard flight that hospitalized 7

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Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves made an unscheduled stop in the D.C. area on Wednesday as passengers of Lufthansa Flight 469, the Frankfurt-bound flight that was forced to land at Washington Dulles Airport after encountering severe turbulence that sent some passengers to the hospital.

“On flight last night, I was told [the] plane dropped almost 4,000 feet, seven people went to the hospital, everything was flying everywhere,” Camila wrote on Instagram Thursday, sharing a video of debris littering the airplane aisle.

“To respect the privacy of those around me, that’s all I am showing but the plane was CHAOS and the turbulence [kept] on coming,” she said. “Thank God everyone was safe and OK … slept well, getting on new flight today.”

Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey attend the premiere of "Sing 2" on Dec. 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, Calif.

In a selfie video posted to her Instagram Stories shortly after, the model said she was anticipating another bumpy flight.

“Just my luck after last night,” she told followers. “Just got on the rescheduled flight, and the pilot was saying we would have 45-minute turbulence getting out of Washington.”

After taking off from Austin, Tex., Lufthansa Flight 469 hit turbulence as the Airbus A330 flew 37,000 feet over Tennessee on Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.

“This was so-called clear air turbulence, which can occur without visible weather phenomena or advance warning,” Lufthansa added in a statement. “The affected passengers were given initial care on board by the flight attendants trained for such cases. As the safety and well-being of passengers and crew members is the top priority at all times, the cockpit crew decided to make an alternate landing to [Dulles] after flying through the turbulence.”

Susan Zimmerman, another passenger on the flight, described the scary saga to CNN.

“During dinner service, there suddenly was a wind shear, the plane increased altitude, then we fell 1,000 feet,” Zimmerman said. “It was like unexpectedly free-falling for five seconds off the top of a roller coaster, plates and glassware were up at the ceiling, and my purse from the floor flew behind me to the right.”

Fellow passenger Samantha Pinto told The Washington Post she saw a baby fly out of a bassinet and the baby’s mother grabbing the baby out of the air. “I seriously thought we were going to die,” she said.



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