BANGKOK. Twenty people aboard the Singapore Airlines flight that suffered severe turbulence on Tuesday I am currently in intensive careBangkok’s Samitivej Hospital said in a statement Wednesday. The hospital said 58 people were still being treated at various medical facilities e 27 were discharged. Nine people have undergone surgery, while five others are waiting to be operated on. One passenger died of a suspected heart attack.
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This morning, just before 5am (local time), the airline transported 131 passengers and 12 crew members on a special flight to Singapore. There were 211 passengers, including many Australians, Britons and Singaporeans, and 18 crew members on the original flight. The injured passengers and their families remained in Bangkok.
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«I saw people across the hall rise horizontally, hit the ceiling, and land back on the ground. Some got big cuts to their heads and concussions,” Dzafran Azmir, a 28-year-old student on board the flight, told Reuters after arriving in Singapore. Photographs of the plane’s interior showed tears in the cabin panels, oxygen masks and panels hanging from the ceiling and scattered luggage.
One passenger said some people’s heads hit lights above the seats and broke panels.
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Officers from the Singapore Transport Safety Investigation Bureau arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday evening, Singapore Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said in a statement on Facebook. Since the accident involves a US company, Boeing, which produces the 777-300ER aircraft, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent a representative and four technical advisors to support the investigation.
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Aircraft tracking provider FlightRadar 24 said the flight experienced “a rapid change in vertical speed, consistent with a sudden turbulence event.” at 07.49 GMT, based on flight tracking data. “At that moment there were thunderstorms in the area, some of them very intense,” he said. The sudden turbulence occurred over the Irrawaddy basin in Myanmar after a 10-hour flight from London, Singapore Airlines said.
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«It is not an uncommon occurrence for large thunderstorms to occur in the Bay of Bengal. There is always the possibility of turbulence,” said a pilot of the airline who regularly flies to Singapore and Southeast Asia. The pilot, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that “two days ago, on the way to Singapore, we went off course about 30 miles flying around thunderstorms.”
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The moment the London – Singapore flight was hit by the storm
Aviation crashes due to turbulence are the most common, according to a 2021 NTSB study. From 2009 to 2018, the US agency found that turbulence accounted for more than a third of reported plane crashes, and most of them resulted in one or more serious injuries, but no damage to the aircraft. Singapore Airlineswhich is considered a point of reference in the sector, It has not had any serious accidents in recent years. The last fatality accident was a flight from Singapore to Los Angeles via Taipei, which crashed on October 31, 2000 at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, killing 83 of 179 people on board. Shares of Singapore Airlines were not traded on Wednesday due to a public holiday in Singapore.
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