Brit, 29, on jet-plunge Singapore Airlines flight that left grandfather, 73, dead reveals he suffered six neck and spine fractures after plane was hit by turbulence ...

DALLAS (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, according to federal safety ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs ...