A Singapore Airways Boeing 777-300ER passenger plane, pictured above London in August 2022.
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One individual died aboard a Singapore Airways flight and 30 individuals had been injured, after the plane encountered extreme turbulence and diverted to Bangkok, the airline mentioned Tuesday.
The flight #SQ321 had left London for Singapore, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew members. The plane “encountered extreme turbulence en-route” and was rerouted to land on the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, in line with Flightradar24 knowledge.
“We are able to affirm that there are accidents and one fatality on board the Boeing 777-300ER,” the corporate mentioned in an preliminary replace on Fb. It later added that “18 people have been hospitalised. One other 12 are being handled in hospitals. The remaining passengers and crew are being examined and given therapy, the place mandatory, at Suvarnabhumi Worldwide Airport in Bangkok.”
Singapore Airways mentioned that it was working with native authorities to supply medical help and that it will ship a help group to Bangkok.
The Aviation Security Community has recorded seven incidents for Singapore Airways, final logging fatalities for one of many firm’s flights in October 2000, when 83 individuals had been mentioned to have died.
Turbulence-related incidents are the commonest sort of accident suffered by aircrafts that function underneath the Title 14 Code of Federal Rules Half 121, in line with the U.S. Nationwide Transportation Security Board. This covers main U.S. airways, in addition to cargo plane and regional carriers.
Knowledge from the Federal Aviation Administration exhibits that extreme accidents from turbulence are uncommon, with 163 instances recorded between 2009 and 2022.
