‘Son thrown back two rows’: Singapore Airlines flyers recount turbulence horror
More than 140 passengers and crew on the Singapore Airlines flight – Boeing BA.N 777-300ER plane, hit by severe turbulence on Tuesday, reached Singapore on a relief flight on Wednesday morning.
The London-Singapore flight made an emergency landing in Bangkok after the turbulence left many injured, while a 73-year-old British passenger died of a suspected heart attack.
According to the aircraft’s tracking provider FlightRadar 24, at around 0749 GMT, the flight encountered “a rapid change in vertical rate, consistent with a sudden turbulence event.”
“There were thunderstorms, some severe, in the area at the time,” it said.
Photographs from inside the plane showed gashes in the overhead cabin panels, oxygen masks and panels hanging from the ceiling and luggage strewn around.
