One dead, multiple injuries from severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said. One passenger on board died of a suspected heart attack and 30were in jured.
The plane with 211 passengers and 18 crew was headed to Singapore when it made the emergency landing, the airline said in a statement.
The sudden turbulence occurred over the Irrawaddy Basin in Myanmar about 10 hours into the flight, the airline said.
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“Suddenly the aircraft starts tilting up and there was shaking so I started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelt was launched immediately into the ceiling,” Dzafran Azmir, a 28-year-old student on board the flight told Reuters.
The airline said 18 were hospitalised and 12 being treated in hospitals. Samitivej Hospital said it was treating 71 passengers, including six who were severely injured.
“Singapore Airlines offers its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased. We deeply apologise for the traumatic experience that our passengers and crew members suffered on this flight,” the airline said.
The spokesperson for FlightRadar 24 said regarding data showing a drop in height, “our initial thinking is the turbulence event is prior to the standard descent from 37,000 to 31,000 feet. That appears to just be a flight level change in preparation for landing.”
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