![Passengers and crew members of flight SQ321 London-Singapore landed in Singapore this Wednesday, May 22 in the morning. Passengers and crew members of flight SQ321 London-Singapore landed in Singapore this Wednesday, May 22 in the morning.](https://huffpost-focus.sirius.press/2024/05/22/0/0/3200/1800/320/180/60/0/f6504fb_1716356836720-000-34tc98g.jpg)
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Passengers and crew members of flight SQ321 London-Singapore landed in Singapore this Wednesday, May 22 in the morning.
INTERNATIONAL – Traumatized. Passengers and crew members of flight SQ321 London-Singapore landed in Singapore this Wednesday, May 22 in the morning, after very severe turbulence experienced Tuesday during this journey which caused the death of a passenger and an emergency landing in Bangkok.
At 11,000 meters above Myanmar ten hours after takeoff Tuesday, the Boieng plane suddenly rose and plunged several times. Dozens of people were thrown to the ceiling, more than 30 people were injured and a 73-year-old British man died of a probable heart attack.
The 131 passengers were greeted on the tarmac by relieved relatives and some agreed to speak to journalists, such as Andrew Davies, a British passenger on board who recounted scenes of “absolute terror” has BBC Radio 5.
Terrible cry and somersaults
“What I remember most is seeing objects and things flying through the air.
I was covered in coffee. The turbulence was incredibly strong”he first described to the British media.
“During the few seconds after the plane fell, we heard a terrible scream and what sounded like a thud”he continued, adding that he had helped a woman who “ screamed in agony » and who had “a gash in the head”. The person who thought the plane was going to crash said he saw people with lacerations on their heads and bleeding from their ears.
Another Briton, Jerry, 68, who was traveling to Australia for his son’s wedding, complained to the BBC about the lack of warning before the plane plunged. “I hit my head on the ceiling, my wife too, and some poor people who were walking around ended up doing somersaults”he remembers.
Another passenger said the plane suddenly began to “ bow down » and « to shiver “. “ Some people hit their heads on the ceiling of the baggage cabins and dented it, they hit the places where the lights and masks are and went through the ceiling “, declared to Reuters Dzafran Azmir, a 28-year-old student.
Of the passengers, 56 were Australian, 47 British and 41 Singaporean, the airline said.
The seat belt signal had just come on
The Prime Minister of Singapore, Lawrence Wong, addressed his “deepest condolences” to the family and loved ones of the deceased passenger, Geoff Kitchen, director of a theater near Bristol.
The city-state sent a team of investigators to Bangkok and Lawrence Wong assured on Facebook that his country “worked closely with the Thai authorities”.
“It is too early to know exactly what happened. But I think passengers generally lack precautions”Anthony Brickhouse, American aviation security expert, told AFP. “As soon as the signal goes off, most of them immediately take off their seat belts. » According to Andrew Davies, “the plane suddenly collapsed” when the seat belt signal had just come on.
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