Severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight from London leaves 1 dead, others injured

One person on a Singapore Airlines flight died and dozens of others were injured when the plane traveling from London to Singapore "encountered sudden extreme turbulence," the airline said Tuesday. Flight SQ321 from London's Heathrow Airport was diverted to Bangkok and touched down at 3:45 p.m. local time Tuesday at Suvarnabhumi Airport, the carrier said in a statement posted to its Facebook page.
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[merryhunt]

I don't want to seem tiresome, but keep your seatbelt on. Airplanes can suddenly drop.

[skylarkstarsmith]

I don't think it's correct to say that the turbulence killed this man. What killed him was his - totally understandable - shock and panic, which led to a heart attack. Unfortnately in the UK there is no health screening that would let you know you are at risk.

[NoName-ijbp]

If climate change is such an issue, let’s talk about all of the elites, celebrities, and politicians flying their private jets at a rate 1000x more than any average person could… but nope, they’ll blame everything else they can think of

[rumblethis]

6000' in 3 minutes is only 2000' per .minute a relatively
Normal climb / decent rate.
More to this story than this news station is trying hard to sensationalize!

😂😂😂

[kelsokreations]

You sure it has nothing to do with the largest solar storm (since the 1970’s) Earth is currently experiencing?

[BaronObeeefdip]

This is a CBS article reference, the plane was a “ Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER”. It’s BOEING problem!

[RobertoAfortunado]

God almighty, climate change, seriously?

[michaelshannon]

I love seeing a man confidently mispronounce "Reading" England and then stand in front of a broken graphic XD

[AutumnLuvsJesus]

How did he die though?? Normally during turbulence they have the seatbelt sign on, so I don’t assume he didn’t have his on. What happened??

[BigEightiesNewWave]

Turbulence like that CAN happen, esp. in that area. Plane took a beating, and no flight surfaces broke apart, plane recovered. Anyone injured was not wearing their Seat belt EOS Damn fine airliner Boeing built.💪

[TheNoticeable]

Pray for the person sitting on the toilet during all this.

[zzzowie]

It is not true that the plane "dropped" 6000 feet. The descent toward Bangkok from 37, 000 feet to 31, 000 was not part of the turbulence event, but a standard controlled descent to a new flight level, and was after the turbulence

[Caseylawton]

Oh God, they would figure out a way to force climate change in this story lol. Guys this is the kind of crap that makes people tune out the issue

[fauziahmohddinmohddin]

Flight several times above this Irrawaddy Basin / BENGAL dangerous air turbulence expected passed thru this area .. never let go seatbelt unless in toilet .. emergency will buzz to go back to your seat and buckled . Very annoying and scare .. even sleep with seatbelt on .

[richardhenrysr]

oh my gosh...david...HI!!! donna from austin. we miss you here but glad to see you are doing well. chicago is very lucky to have you. we still have kristin...so we are fine but we all miss your handsome smiling face & great disposition...good luck, always...

[DustinPlatt]

1:42 that doesn't look like data. It looks like my grandparents' wallpaper.

[cuprunnethover]

Oh my goodness! That man's poor family. It was probably somebody's grandpa. I would be screaming my head off!

[moz]

omg The man was Not killed. he had a pre existing heart condition

[jase]

Deal with it if you go on a plane there is always a chance of something happening just like going on a ferry when a storm hits.

[PilarJungerWitt]

University of Reading in the UK, pronounced Red - ing, (like the color 'red'.