More than 140 passengers and crew members of the SIAL.SI Singapore Airlines flight were affected by severe turbulence Dozens were injured and one died, finally arriving in Singapore on a rescue flight on Tuesday morning after an emergency landing in Bangkok.

The scheduled London-Singapore flight on a Boeing BA.N 777-300ER was redirected to Bangkok after the plane was rocked by turbulence As a result, passengers and crew members were scattered throughout the cabin, some of them hitting the roof.

A 73-year-old British passenger died of a suspected heart attack and at least 30 people were injured.

“I saw people on the other side of the corridor walking completely horizontally. hit the ceiling and landed again in very uncomfortable positions. “People suffered severe head cuts and concussions,” he said. Reuters Dzafran Azmir, a 28-year-old student, boards a flight after arriving in Singapore.

Photos from inside the plane showed cuts on the cabin ceiling panels, oxygen masks and panels hanging from the ceiling, and luggage scattered throughout. The passenger said that some people’s heads hit the light above the seats and punched holes in the panels.

Singapore Airlines carried 131 passengers and 12 crew on a relief flight from Bangkok, which arrived in Singapore shortly before 5am. There were 211 passengers on board the original flight, including many Australians, Britons and Singaporeans, as well as 18 crew; The injured pilots and their families remained in Bangkok..

“On behalf of Singapore Airlines, I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased,” Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Fong said in a video message.

Singapore’s Transport Safety Investigations Bureau (TSIB) is investigating the incident, and the US National Transportation Safety Board also sends representatives to provide support.

The plane suddenly encountered severe turbulence, according to pilot Guo, who also declared a medical emergency and headed to Bangkok.

Aircraft tracking provider FlightRadar 24 reported that at about 7:49 a.m. during the flight there was a “rapid change in vertical speed consistent with sudden turbulence event“According to flight tracking data.

“There were thunderstorms in the area at the time, some severe,” he said.

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Sudden turbulence occurred over the Ayeyarwaddy River basin in Myanmar about 10 hours into the flight, the airline said. Turbulence has many causes, the most obvious being unstable weather conditions which cause storms, but this flight may have been affected by clear air turbulence, which is very difficult to detect.

Airplane crashes involving turbulence are the most common type of accident, according to a 2021 NTSB study.

Although the airline stated that 30 people were injuredSamitivei Hospital in Thailand said it was treating 71 passengers.

From 2009 to 2018, the US agency found that Turbulence caused more than a third of plane crashes reported, and in most cases it resulted in one or more serious injuries, but no damage to the aircraft.

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Singapore Airlines, widely recognized as one of the world’s leading airlines and a benchmark for much of the industry, There have been no serious incidents in recent years..

The last fatal crash was a flight from Singapore to Los Angeles via Taipei, where it crashed on October 31, 2000 at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport. 83 of the 179 people on board were killed. (Rts)