From RTP television site (translated)
Sudden manouver on a TAP plane causes 25 injured
25 people were injured when a TAP plane was forced to make a sudden manouver to avoid a collision before landing at Ilha Terceira (TER), Azores, said an airline source.
The Airbus A-310 was travelling from Lisbon (LIS) to Terceira (TER) and the accident ocurred at 10:30 , Lisbon time, said the same source.
25 were injured (23 pax and 2 crew) and were sent to the local hospitals. The same source informed that the some of the injured suffered head (skull?!) trauma but nobody was inconscient.
TAP official source said to LUSA news agency that the Captain received an indication that they were on a collision course with another plane and "as the rules say" was forced to divert from its course. "To do so, he had to lower the plane's altittude, and for the urgency of the situation, there was no time to warn the passengers, whom without seatbelts, hit the top of the deck" they explained.
The plane flying from Lisbon to Terceira, left Lisbon at 08:20.
The story (in portuguese) is here
RTP Television
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