Video shows dog's heartwarming reunion with family after Lufthansa flight was hit by jarring turbulence that hospitalized 7 people

• A dog on the Lufthansa flight that made an emergency landing has been reunited with its owners.
• The dog's owner was initially left concerned after he had to wait hours to hear if the pooch was OK.
• The flight was hit by severe turbulence that led to seven people being sent to the hospital. 

A dog that was onboard the Lufthansa flight that made an emergency landing in Washington, DC, last week, after hitting severe turbulence, has finally been reunited with his owners.

A video of the reunion, provided exclusively to Insider, shows the heartwarming moment the Goldendoodle and its owners reconnected in Singapore after the traumatic travel ordeal.

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The Goldendoodle, named Arlo, was traveling on a flight from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday, and was then going to make an onward journey to Singapore.

However, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in DC, with at least seven people injured and taken to hospital due to the extreme turbulence.

After the flight made an emergency landing, it took hours for Arlo's owners to get an update on his whereabouts and well-being.

Garrett Stuteville spoke to Insider reporters last week and said he was told that Arlo had been left locked in a cage for over 10 hours as TSA screening rules did not allow him to be let out.

Stuteville was later sent pictures and informed that the Lufthansa grounds crew was taking care of Arlo at Dulles Airport.

Over the weekend, the Goldendoodle finally reached Singapore, and was reunited with his owners, to much visible relief.

Actor Matthew McConaughey's wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, was among the passengers on the flight. In an Instagram post, she said she'd been told the plane dropped almost 4,000 feet.

A photo posted on Twitter by a man claiming his wife was also on the flight showed trash and food trays strewn across the aisle. He said most of the people who were harmed had not been wearing seatbelts and that the pilot told passengers that lightning had struck the plane.

A Lufthansa spokesperson said the plane experienced "brief severe turbulence" about 90 minutes into the flight, which prompted the emergency landing.