Earlier this week a Singapore Airlines flight With London Down Singapore he was thrown into chaos and forced to do this make an emergency landing in Bangkok after severe turbulence that resulted in the death of a 73-year-old Briton and more than 104 other passengers injured. In just a few minutes, Boeing 777-300ER he fell almost 6,000 feet.
Oxygen masks fell, but according to researchers, some of the boxes that actually held them in place also fell Wall Street Journal. People were thrown into the air through the passage. That’s the kind of power we’re talking about here. Now we look at what happened during those few terrible minutes plane they were like z passengers who were there.
Ali Bukhari, a 27-year-old Australian engineer who was returning from their honeymoon with his wife, spoke to “Wall Street” daily about what they saw and felt:
“My wife and I thought we were going to die,” Bukhari said. “We didn’t think we could do it.”
Bukhari and his wife were not injured; They were wearing seat belts. But many others were seriously injured. Blood flowed down their faces. Bukhari said someone pumped the man’s chest as his body lay on the floor.
That’s when a terrifying thought occurred to him: What if something was wrong with the plane? He considered looking out the window for any signs of external damage, but held back for fear of what he might see. Surely the turbulence couldn’t have done that much damage, he thought.
The plane crashed into one of the worst turbulence-related accidents in history, and the 73-year-old man who died was the first fatality commercial flight experiencing turbulence over almost three decades. Another 104 passengers received medical treatment in Bangkok, with 20 of them still in ICU.
Here is more information about the injuries suffered by passengers from WSJ: :
In one of the hospitals where many victims were transported, six suffered skull and brain injuries, and 22 suffered spine or spinal cord injuries. Some patients show signs of paralysis, although it is not yet known whether the damage is enduring, said Dr. Adinun Kittiratanapaibool, director of private medical facility Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital. At least 17 people underwent surgery.
Departure I also spoke to Keith Davis, a 59-year-old landscape architect from Australia, who said the incident was a shock to him. Davis was adjusting his seat when he noticed his wife’s water glass was shaking. Before he could do so, he and his wife took to the air.
His wife hit the overhead luggage compartment and then landed in the aisle. His head went through the ceiling panel and he landed back in the chair.
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He said the first thing he did was lean over his wife and ask if everything was okay. “Then I realized I was dripping with blood,” he said.
His wife, Kerry Jordan, is in intensive care but is stable and conscious. Davis had mostly superficial injuries – a laceration along his hairline that caused a lot of bleeding and a black eye – and localized pain in his right arm.
In the tumultuous moments after the incident, his greatest concern was keeping his wife tranquil. He wrapped his legs around her to keep her in place and prevent anyone from moving her until they reached safety, he said. The couple, who have been on holiday in the UK, now just want to get home but that means getting on a different plane.
WSJ he also spoke to one passenger, 54-year-old Andrew Davies, who was not seriously injured. Because of this, he walked around the cottage to assist other people who were not so lucky.
Davies said the seat belt warning came on just before he jumped. “It was a very sudden, sudden decline,” he said. It seemed to end as suddenly as it began.
“I didn’t really have enough time to think, ‘Oh my God, is this going to end?’” he said.
As he circled the plane to assist the injured, Davies noticed passengers running in all directions, squeezing past each other. They had to pick through fallen objects, even people lying on the floor, he said.
The man in business class had a immense wound on his head. Below, another one, clutching his chest, looked as if he was in great pain. The woman injured her back and screamed in pain. The wound on another’s ear bled onto her white shirt.
Davies and others moved the unconscious elderly man from the seat and placed him near the emergency door where there was more space. A medically trained passenger called for a defibrillator, which was brought by a limping cabin crew member. They performed CPR for at least 20 minutes and then someone said, ‘I think we need to stop,'” Davies recalled.
“He’s my husband, he’s my husband,” his widow repeated many times.
About 15 minutes after the incident, approx remote – who was “visibly shaken”, limped into the cabin and told passengers what had happened and what he saw was actually a nightmare. Here’s what it looked like inside, from “Wall Street” daily: :
The turbulence, lasting about a minute, made the cabin look like a place where a hurricane had hit. Food and drinks were scattered in the upper luggage compartments. Some ceiling panels fell off, causing the plane’s innards to fall out – a tangle of pipes and tubes.
In the corridors and in the kitchens where flight attendants prepare meals, trays of food came off the shelves. There were packets of chips, bottles of water, broken wine glasses, coffee cups, kettles, apples, and sliced kiwis lying on the floor.
