Singapore Flight incident: Passengers suffer skull, brain, spine cord injuries after massive turbulence
Twenty people who were aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence and diverted to Bangkok for an emergency landing on Tuesday remain in intensive care. Now, in recent update, of the 40 people on the flight still under treatment, 22 patients have spinal cord injuries and six have brain and skull injuries.
When it happened?
On 22 May, 131 passengers and 12 crew members arrived at Changi Airport in Singapore via a relief flight. His relatives welcomed him at the airport. The maximum number of passengers in the flight were 56 from Australia, 41 from Singapore and 47 from Britain.
🚨✈️Le Boeing 777 de Singapore Airlines qui faisait le trajet de Londres à Singapour a fait une chute de 1800 mètres. Faisant 1 mort et des blessés, après de fortes turbulences. pic.twitter.com/Y7dgNSFhmO
— 75 Secondes 🗞️ (@75secondes) May 21, 2024
The airline said it is fully cooperating with the authorities in the matter of atmospheric disturbance on the London-Singapore flight. British passenger Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, died during the flight. He is suspected of having a heart attack.
Singapore flight turbulence
It is noteworthy that on May 20, Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight SQ321, flying from London (Heathrow) to Singapore, suddenly encountered severe turbulence over the Irrawaddy Basin at an altitude of 37,000 feet, about 10 hours after departure. A 73-year-old man died in the accident, while 104 people were seriously injured.
The director of Bangkok's Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital said his staff were currently treating six people with head and brain injuries. At the same time, treatment for spine injuries of 22 people and bones, muscles and other injuries of 13 people is going on. He said that such injuries caused by turbulence in the aircraft are being treated for the first time in his hospital. Those injured range from a two-year-old child to an 83-year-old man.
Meanwhile, One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and dozens were injured after Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 encountered what the airline described as sudden extreme turbulence while flying over Mynamar.