Flying|According to Singapore’s Aviation Safety Agency, the passenger plane bobbed up and down for a few seconds.
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Carrier A Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore pitched up and down within seconds after encountering clear air turbulence over Myanmar on Tuesday last week. The incidents are based on preliminary data from the Singapore Traffic Safety Research Agency, says BBC.
A 73-year-old British man apparently died of a heart attack as a result of the plane being thrown. A total of 104 of the plane’s 211 passengers and 18 staff members were taken to hospital after the plane made an emergency landing at the airport in Bangkok.
An explanation according to the Boeing 777-300ER plane was flying at an altitude of 11.3 kilometers when it encountered turbulence. The plane first began a rapid ascent and then fell a distance of 54 meters in 4.6 seconds. The passengers, whose seat belts were not fastened, hit the roof of the cabin.
After that, the plane started another fast ascent, which immediately brought the airborne passengers back down.
“The oxygen masks flew out, the interior of the plane came off”, a 27-year-old passenger Ali Bukhari told the BBC. “We saw blood on the ceiling, and a lot of people were lying on the floor. It was total destruction.”
In hospital treatment on Wednesday, there were still 42 passengers with, among other things, skull and spinal injuries and broken bones.
The plane crash was extraordinary. According to statistics, only three people have died as a result of turbulence in 20 years.
Correction May 29, 2024 at 8:48 p.m.: Corrected the section that tells about the plane falling. The plane fell 54 meters in 4.6 seconds. Earlier it was wrongly written about 0.6 seconds.
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