J-Air has revealed that on December 8, one passenger was injured on flight JL2151 from Osaka/Itami to Aomori (operated with an Embraer 190 aircraft, registration: JA250J). On January 6, the Civil Aviation Bureau of Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism certified the case as an aviation accident.
The flight was carrying a total of 65 people, consisting of 4 crew members and 61 passengers, and departed from Osaka/Itami at 7:24 a.m. While flying at around 8:30 a.m. above an area approximately 23 kilometers north-northwest of Akita Airport, the aircraft experienced turbulence. The flight arrived at Aomori at 8:56 a.m.
On December 10, a passenger on flight JL2158 from Aomori to Osaka/Itami requested the use of a wheelchair from staff at Aomori Airport. When staff inquired about the situation, the passenger explained that while on board flight JL2151 on December 8, they landed hard on their buttocks in the aircraft lavatory due to turbulence, and that when they visited a hospital the following day, they were diagnosed with a “contusion of the right buttock and suspected iliac bone fracture.” After being examined again at a hospital in Osaka, they were diagnosed on December 25 with a “lumbar compression fracture.”
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