2024-05-24 14:46:58
Flight SQ321 made an emergency touchdown within the Thai capital on Tuesday, with 20 folks nonetheless in intensive care in Bangkok after the terrifying high-altitude ordeal.
Turbulence hit the Boeing 777-300ER over Myanmar, sending passengers and crew flying across the cabin, some hitting the ceiling. A 73-year-old British man was killed and 104 folks have been injured on a flight from London to Singapore with 211 passengers and 18 crew members.
The director of Bangkok’s Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital mentioned his hospital was treating six folks with cranium and mind accidents, 22 with spinal accidents and 13 with bone, muscle and different accidents. “We now have by no means handled folks with such accidents from turbulence earlier than,” the top of the hospital informed reporters, including that the injured ranged in age from two to 83 years previous.
One passenger mentioned that folks have been thrown so onerous that there have been marks on the ceiling of the cabin. The drama passed off whereas the aircraft was flying at an altitude of greater than 11 km.
9 of the 16 Malaysians on board are being handled at a Bangkok hospital, the nation’s ambassador to Thailand informed the AFP information company. “5 of them are being monitored within the intensive care unit, one is in a daily ward. All of them are in a secure situation,” mentioned Jojie Samuel. One other affected person is in vital however secure situation, he added. This man, a crew member, suffered a number of head accidents in addition to again and leg accidents.
Footage taken after the aircraft landed in Bangkok present chaos within the cabin, with meals, drinks and baggage strewn about, and oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling.
On Wednesday, 131 passengers and 12 crew members left for Singapore, the place they needed to proceed their journey or return residence.
2024-05-24 14:46:58