MOM WILL 'NEVER FORGET' SEEING TODDLER STUCK IN PLANE'S CEILING AFTER SEVERE TURBULENCE

Flying can be a harrowing experience. While most of the time, nothing happens, there's also the chance you'll have an experience that you'll never forget, especially when you have kids in tow.

One mom learned that things can change in an instant when traveling by air, after the international flight she and her family traveled on from Spain to Uruguay hit some unexpected but intense turbulence.

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Turbulence can be so unpredictable.

Dr. Cecilia Laguzzi, her husband, and their two young children were traveling on an overnight flight on Air Europa from Madrid, Spain, to Montevideo, Uruguay, earlier this week, when the plane hit "heavy" turbulence and was diverted through Brazil.

Dr. Laguzzi shared the harrowing story with Good Morning America, including finding her 2-year-old stuck in the plane's ceiling.

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It's something she'll always remember.

"It was an image I will never forget," Laguzzi explained.

She was traveling home to Uruguay after spending three months in Barcelona with her family for an internship. When the turbulence began, she had been asleep, but she was woken up by unknown objects hitting her.

"I felt something very hard hitting my head and then my back, and I fell on my head, and I couldn't get up at first," she shared. "I remember I was in the plane, and I could feel it like falling, like free falling, for what felt like an eternity."

Things got frantic quickly.

Laguzzi estimated that things on the plane went back to normal after less than 10 seconds. Once operations were back to normal, she went to check on her husband and children, who she wasn't sitting with. While she found her 4-year-old daughter safely with her husband, her son was nowhere to be found. She described the plane as "chaotic," with people and luggage strewn about the floor.

She couldn't have imagined where he was.

"We were trying to find him on the floor and started screaming his name until someone told me, 'Are you looking for a baby?' and I said, Yes," she shared. "He said, 'Well, it's up there,' and he pointed up, and the minute I look up he was there crying, looking at us."

Laguzzi explained that her son was caught above the luggage compartment where some plastic had broken off. Thankfully, her husband was able to get him down.

"I'll never forget how I felt in that moment," she said. "He was crying, he was very scared, and we were all very scared as well, but the moment I took him in my arms, he calmed down."

No one died, but it was serious.

According to Good Morning America, ABC News reached out to the airline and got confirmation that 30 people got medical care at the airport in Brazil where they made an emergency landing, while 10 had to be transported to the hospital. Seven of those hospitalized were in serious, but not life-threatening condition.

Laguzzi shared that her family is a "little bruised up," but otherwise doing well.

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