Turbulence on Spanish flight from Mauritius injures 14

Fourteen people had to be treated for injuries in Madrid after a flight operated by Spanish charter airline Evelop ran into severe turbulence en route from Mauritius, a company official said Wednesday. The A330-343 Airbus aircraft landed safely at its original destination at Madrid's Barajas Tuesday night after suffering a 15-second episode of clear-air turbulence that made the aircraft plummet a few hundred meters in the sky over Ethiopia. Three crew members were among those injured, all of them lightly. The company source said the 11 passengers had ignored the seat belt warning activated before the plane flew into the turbulence zone. El Mundo newspaper Wednesday quoted a passenger as saying the plunge had sent various people "flying towards the ceiling and floating in the air, like you see in the movies". <br/>