Some 12 people have been injured after turbulence on a flight inbound to Dublin Airport from Doha in Qatar. 

Emergency services met the six passengers and six staff injured when the flight landed just before 1pm today. 

The injuries happened when the Qatar Airways flight experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey. 

Turbulence on Qatar - Dublin flight

In a statement, Dublin Airport said the flight landed safely this afternoon. 

"The Dublin Airport team continues to provide full assistance on the ground to passengers and airline staff,” it said. 

It follows a recent incident involving turbulence on a flight from London to Singapore, in which one passenger died and nearly 100 were injured. 

Some 20 passengers remain in intensive care in Bangkok. 

A Kilkenny couple were among the four Irish people caught up in the turbulence emergency on a flight from London to Singapore this week. 

One received hospital treatment and both are now understood to have recovered and are continuing their trip. 

'It was like a rollercoaster'

Philomena Prendergast was travelling back from Australia with her elderly aunt and uncle.

She said the flight attendants had just started their first in-flight service when the plane suddenly dropped.

"It's like one of those rollercoaster things that you go up on and it takes you to the top and then just drops you," she said.

"The whole plane drops, everything goes up in the sky - that's what exactly happened with the trolleys, the food, the air hostesses.

"They just hit the ceilings and came crashing down with everything else".

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