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turbulence at 37,000 feet. passengers describing the horror, plates and glasses flying. a flight attendant hitting the cabin ceiling. several passengers take on the th hospital. and tonight, a separate flight forced to divert because of a fire in the cabin. gio benitez on both flights. tonight, the suspect accused of attempting to place an explosive device onboard that plane in pennsylvania, in court. and tonight here, the first image of that device, hidden, they say, in the lining of his luggage. trevor ault is there. the idaho college murders, t.d tonight, what's now been ec pi...

>> reporter: susan zimmerman among the 174 passengers onboard. >> while it was happening, the plates were up and the ceiling glass was up in the ceiling. my bag was flown back behind me. >> reporter: lufthansa flight 460 in the middle of dinner service on wednesday night, when the faa says the aircraft hit severe turbulence at 37,000 feet over tennessee. >> luft than that airbus a-330, experiencing extreme turbulence. >> reporter: the plane diverting safely to washington's dulles airport. lufthansa says seven passengers suffered minor injuries, and the aircraft was also damaged. and just hours...

They got quite a bit of time in that area because the area is not cold, it's probably 80 degrees. and in the area. the real concern to me on that would be is because i don't think in a violent thunderstorm that you're going to able to come out -- but you could, i'm not saying you couldn't -- but normally you would be in a rather uncontrollable position so it would be very difficult to land like the a 320 did on the hudson river. the real concern is the violence of those thunderstorms and that line of thunderstorms, updrafts and down drafts, this type thing. we had a very similar experience wit...

With two of three pit tubes were blocked. are you concerned this to have happened here and what happens in the cockpit when you get these whacky readings. >> the pitot tubes are, indeed something that's a problem. they are not made by airbus they are made by a vendor. there's a second one i'm not sure which one was the problem. pilots should have been trained how to fly through these events. i know that northwest airlines on the a-330 which is the same plane of the air france in the atlantic had some incidents but they were trained to fly through them. air france didn't. air france is the only...

Flight to seemingly vanish into thin air. >> reporter: it's 2009. air france airbus a-330 disappears over the atlantic headed from rio de janeiro to par paris. no distress calls from the pilots. it takes search crews five days to locate the tail of the plane and another two years to find the bulk of the wreckage. the final verdict? a deadly stall caused by ice crystals blocking the plane's sensors. in 1996 one of the most disputed air disasters in recent memory. twa flight 800 exploded in mid air shortly after it took off from new york city killing all 230 people on board. several witnesses re...