Qatar Airways flight forced to land in Portuguese military base in the Azores islands after bloodied passengers thrown from seats into aisles. Lisbon: A Qatar Airways jet made an an emergency landing at a Portuguese military base in the Azores islands Sunday after heavy turbulence injured passengers. The Boeing 777, bound from Washington to Doha, was re-routed during a storm to the Azores, a Portuguese territory in the North Atlantic, and landed at the Lajes Air Base. Officials and witnesses said the plane had dropped steeply in altitude, hurling several passengers out of their seats and causing one traveller to suffer heart trouble. “All the passengers were taken to a hotel in the evening and are due to depart on Monday morning,” said an airbase spokesman, adding that s...