Six crew members were injured Sunday due to turbulence on an American Airlines flight from Brazil to Miami, an airport spokeswoman said.

The carrier’s Flight 980 apparently encountered turbulence on its way to Miami International Airport from the Recife Airport in Brazil, airport spokeswoman Maria Levrant said. The flight landed at MIA shortly after 6:30 p.m. It had 136 passengers and nine crew members on board, an airline spokeswoman said.

Gillas Correa, who was on board the flight, told Miami Herald news partner WFOR CBS 4 he felt a “huge drop.”

“It was a lot of people screaming there was a lot of people crying,” Correa told CBS4. “There was a woman who was sitting a couple rows behind us; she got thrown up in the air and landed in the hallway.”

But they were lucky, Correa said, because one of the passengers was an emergency room doctor who helped treat the injured while still in the air.

A total of six crew members were injured due to the turbulence, MIA’s Levrant said. Of the six, one was treated at the airport, she said, and five were taken to hospitals.

Of the five, one was transported to Metropolitan Hospital of Miami, she said, and the other four were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.