Passengers of Singapore Airways flight SQ321 from London to Singapore, which made an emergency touchdown in Bangkok, greet members of the family upon arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore on Might 22, 2024.
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SINGAPORE — Greater than 140 passengers and crew that had been on the Singapore Airways flight that made an emergency touchdown in Bangkok Tuesday after encountering extreme turbulence arrived safely in Singapore early on Wednesday.
One passenger died and 30 others had been injured onboard the London to Singapore flight on Tuesday, which encountered “sudden excessive turbulence” about 10 hours after departing from Heathrow Airport.
A aid flight carrying “131 passengers and 12 crew members who had been on board SQ321 arrived in Singapore” at 5:05 a.m. native time on Wednesday, the airline stated in a Fb replace.
The Boeing 777-300ER, which was carrying carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew, was flying over the Irrawaddy Basin at an altitude of 37,000 ft when it skilled sudden turbulence.
A 73-year-old British nationwide died of a suspected coronary heart assault throughout the incident. At the least 30 individuals had been injured, with 18 of them hospitalized and 12 being handled in hospitals, the airline stated.
“I want to specific my deepest condolences to the household and family members of the deceased passenger. We additionally deeply apologise for the trauma skilled by all passengers and crew members on this flight,” Singapore Airways’ CEO Goh Choon Phong, stated in a video message posted on Fb.
The pilot declared a medical emergency and diverted the airplane to Bangkok, and the airplane arrived on the Thai capital at 3:45 p.m. Bangkok time.
As of early Wednesday morning, one other 79 passengers and 6 crew members from the SQ321 flight remained in Bangkok, the airline stated. They embody individuals receiving medical care, in addition to members of the family and family members of these on the flight.
Greater than 1 / 4 of the passengers on flight SQ321 had been from Australia, 47 had been from the UK and 41 from Singapore, SIA stated in an replace. Different passengers had been from New Zealand, Malaysia and others.
SIA is absolutely cooperating with the related authorities within the investigation into this incident, the airline stated. The Singapore inventory market was closed for the Vesak Day vacation on Wednesday.
Boeing stated it was in contact with SIA in regards to the incident and was prepared to supply assist. Singapore obtained the plane in 2008, in accordance with Flightradar24.
The Aviation Security Community has recorded seven incidents for Singapore Airways, final logging accident fatalities for one of many firm’s flights in October 2000, when 83 individuals had been killed when the airplane crashed into development gear at Taipei’s major airport.
— CNBC’s Sophie Kiderlin and Leslie Josephs contributed to the report.
Correction: An earlier model of this story misstated the day that the emergency touchdown occurred.
