Singapore Airways ranked because the No. 2 worldwide airline, in response to the Bounce 2023 report.
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Singapore Airways altered its in-flight seatbelt guidelines and altered a minimum of one flight route following Tuesday’s turbulence incident that led to an emergency touchdown in Bangkok.
The airline will now not present scorching drink and meal providers when the seatbelt signal is on as a part of its new, “extra cautious method” to turbulence, it stated in an announcement to CNBC.
“SIA will proceed to evaluation our processes, as the protection of our passengers and crew is of utmost significance,” it stated.
The airline added that crew will proceed to safe free gadgets and gear and advise passengers to return to their seats and put on their seatbelts.
The inside of Singapore Airline flight SQ321 is pictured after an emergency touchdown at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Worldwide Airport in Thailand on Might 21, 2024.
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Tuesday’s SQ321 London-Singapore Boeing 777-300ER flight, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew, was pressured to divert to Bangkok after it encountered extreme turbulence over Myanmar, inflicting passengers and crew to be thrown across the cabin.
The every day route has since remained in service, however flight knowledge reveals it has diverted away from a part of Myanmar the place the turbulence occurred.
In line with Flightradar 24, the airline’s two accomplished flights for the reason that incident have flown south of Myanmar, over the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The airline didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for touch upon the alterations.
A 73-year-old British man died of a suspected coronary heart assault throughout Tuesday’s incident. An extra 104 passengers have been injured, a press officer for Bangkok’s Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital instructed the Related Press.
As of Thursday, round 20 passengers remained in intensive care with head and spinal accidents, the director of the hospital stated in a press convention, in accordance to the AP. Singapore Airways stated in a separate assertion {that a} whole of 44 passengers and two crew stay within the hospital.
Turbulence-related incidents are the most typical kind of accident suffered by industrial airways, in response to the U.S. Nationwide Transportation Security Board. This covers main U.S. airways, in addition to cargo plane and regional carriers.
Extreme accidents from turbulence are uncommon, nevertheless, with 163 circumstances recorded between 2009 and 2022, 129 of them crew members, in response to the NTSB.
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 have been killed when the airplane crashed into development gear at Taipei’s foremost airport.
— CNBC’s Sophie Kiderlin contributed to this report.
