Flying can be a harrowing experience. While most of the time, nothing happens, there's also the chance you'll have an experience that you'll never forget, especially when you have kids in tow.
One mom learned that things can change in an instant when traveling by air, after the international flight she and her family traveled on from Spain to Uruguay hit some unexpected but intense turbulence.
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Turbulence can be so unpredictable
Things got frantic quickly
Laguzzi estimated that things on the plane went back to normal after less than 10 seconds. Once operations were back to normal, she went to check on her husband and children, who she wasn't sitting with. While she found her 4-year-old daughter safely with her husband, her son was nowhere to be found. She described the plane as "chaotic," with people and luggage strewn about the floor.
She couldn't have imagined where he was.
"We were trying to find him on the floor and started screaming his name until someone told me, 'Are you looking for a baby?' and I said yes," she shared. "He said, 'Well, it's up there,' and he pointed up, and the minute I look up he was there crying, looking at us."
Laguzzi explained that her son was caught above the luggage compartment where some plastic had broken off. Thankfully, her husband was able to get him down.
"I'll never forget how I felt in that moment," she said. "He was crying, he was very scared, and we were all very scared as well, but the moment I took him in my arms, he calmed down."
No one died, but it was serious
According to Good Morning America, ABC News reached out to the airline and got confirmation that 30 people got medical care at the airport in Brazil where they made an emergency landing, while 10 had to be transported to the hospital. Seven of those hospitalized were in serious but not life-threatening condition.
Laguzzi shared that her family is a "little bruised up" but otherwise doing well.
