Jack! Posted May 21 Posted May 21 Quote A 73-year-old British man has died from a suspected heart attack after "sudden extreme turbulence" on a London-Singapore flight. Dozens more have been injured after passengers described people being "launched into the ceiling" and overhead lockers. Singapore Airlines said the pilot declared a medical emergency and landed in Bangkok after "sudden extreme turbulence over the Irrawaddy Basin at 37,000 feet about 10 hours after departure". Passenger Dzafran Azmir, 28, described the chaos on board. "Suddenly the aircraft starts tilting up and there was shaking so I started bracing for what was happening," he said. "And very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelts was launched immediately into the ceiling." "Some people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead and dented it," he added. "They hit the places where lights and masks are and broke straight through it." Kittipong Kittikachorn, head of Bangkok airport, told reporters a British man, 73, had died from probable cardiac arrest. He said it's believed the turbulence hit while people were having breakfast and that an "air pocket" was to blame. "Seventy-one people needed treatment and six of them had critical injuries," said Bangkok's Smitivej Srinakarin Hospital. However, Singapore Airlines seemed to contradict those numbers and said only 30 people had been taken to hospital. In a statement, the UK Foreign Office said it was "in contact with the local authorities". Read more.
TitanicSurvivor Posted May 21 Posted May 21 omg that is so disturbing, condolences to his family. i can't even imagine how terrifying that occasion was to experience
Fetish Posted May 21 Posted May 21 That's so sad. I'm a cabin crew and maybe this accident will open passengers' eyes that turbulences are not something normal and finally they stop yelling at us if we don't let someone in lavatory during turbulence.
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