People hitting ceiling, landing back: Singapore Airlines Flight Passenger
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New Delhi: Hours after the severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight, passengers are seemingly still reeling from the shock, according to reports.
The Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 suddenly dropped from an altitude of 37,000 feet without little warning.
In the turbulence that followed 73-year-old British man died and more than 70 people were injured on Tuesday.
Now one of the passengers aboard the flight, Dzafran Azmir, a Malaysian student, reportedly said that passengers 'who were not wearing seatbelts were launched into the ceiling'.
Azmir was quoted by news agency Reuters as saying: "I saw people from across the aisle going completely horizontal, hitting the ceiling, and landing back down in like really awkward positions. People, like, getting massive gashes in the head, concussions."
He added that the situation was so dramatic that people hit their heads on the baggage cabins overhead, adding that ‘ They hit the places where lights and masks are, and broke straight through it."
Andrew Davies, a British passenger, told BBC: ‘During the few seconds of the plane dropping, there was an awful screaming and what sounded like a thud,’ adding that he had seen people with bleeding ears and head lacerations.
He said he helped a woman who was ‘screaming in agony’ who had a ‘gash on her head’.
Another passenger, Jerry, told BBC that ‘I hit my head on the ceiling, my wife did - some poor people who were walking around ended up doing somersaults.’
The aviation tracking service Flightradar24 reported that flight had suffered extreme turbulence at around 37,000 feet over Myanmar for more than one minute.
During the episode, the flight rose and plunged multiple times before it made a ‘controlled descent and diverted to Bangkok’.
The flight taking off from London's Heathrow Airport "encountered sudden extreme turbulence" over Myanmar's Irrawaddy Basin, Singapore Airlines said.