London-Singapore flight: 20 people in intensive care at Bangkok hospital

London-Singapore flight: 20 people in intensive care at Bangkok hospital

21 Tuesday, 20 people are currently in intensive care in Bangkok after "severe turbulence" that occurred during a flight from London to Singapore.

20 people who traveled aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that experienced turbulence before making an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday are in intensive care at a hospital in the Thai capital, the facility announced this Wednesday, at 5:22 a.m.

one hundred wounded.

Patients from Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines were in intensive care units at Samitivej Srinakarin and Samitivej Sukhumvit hospitals, a hospital group spokesman told AFP.

Carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew members, Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 was hit by extreme and sudden turbulence 10 hours after takeoff at 11,000 meters over Burma, suddenly rising and plunging several times.

A 73-year-old British national passenger died aboard a plane that was flying from London to Singapore and 104 other people who were on board were injured. On Wednesday, 131 passengers and 12 crew members, the majority of those present on the plane, were finally able to land in Singapore via another flight.

The plane suddenly began to shake": A chilling description of the passengers of the London and Singapore flight victims of "extreme turbulence"

The brutal tremor, which lasted just a few seconds, was enough to cause chaos aboard a Singapore Airlines flight on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring dozens, including 20 in intensive care.

"People fell to the ground, my phone jumped out of my hand [...], shoes flew... Everything was done in less than ten seconds!». Dzafran Azmir, a passenger on the tragic Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321, remembers being hit by "strong turbulence" that killed 21 people and injured dozens on Tuesday, March 1, and "the plane suddenly started shaking." "There was a magnificent fall," he told Reuters. All those who were not attached were thrown to the ceiling, and some were hollowed out by hitting their heads against the luggage compartment.»

The chaos of a few seconds that marked the passengers of this London and Singapore flight, even when they were lucky enough to escape unharmed. "There was water everywhere and people were crying," Joshua explained to Sky News, noting that Joshua "doesn't think he'll fly again anytime soon." The turbulence was so sudden that, according to the passenger's testimony, a warning light inviting him to fasten his seatbelt did not arrive in time.