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Singapore plane ‘Turbulence’ : Due to ‘Turbulence’, 22 passengers suffered spinal injuries and six suffered head injuries on a Singapore Airlines flight. This information was given in the media report. The Straits Times quoted Dr. Adinun Kittirattanapaibul, director of the Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital, as saying that 20 people injured in Tuesday’s turbulence are in the intensive care unit but none are life-threatening.
The plane flying from London to Singapore suddenly encountered ‘turbulence’ on Tuesday and within about three minutes it fell 6,000 feet, due to which a 73-year-old British man possibly suffered a heart attack. Had died from. A total of 229 people were on board the aircraft, including 211 passengers and 18 crew members. The oldest patient admitted to the hospital due to injuries caused by ‘turbulence’ is 83 years old.
Kittiratanapaibul said that 40 patients of flight number SQ321 are admitted in the hospital. About 60 passengers were injured when the plane suddenly hit intense ‘turbulence’ over the Irrawaddy basin at an altitude of 37,000 feet, about 10 hours after takeoff. The flight from London to Singapore had to make an emergency landing in Bangkok.
