{"id":64262,"date":"2024-05-21T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight"},"modified":"2024-05-22T02:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:59:19","slug":"one-person-dies-after-severe-turbulence-on-london-to-singapore-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64262","title":{"rendered":"British passenger dies after severe turbulence on London-Singapore flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai authorities say Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, probably had heart attack, and seven are critically injured as passengers describe \u2018dramatic drop\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/what-causes-air-turbulence-and-how-worried-should-passengers-be\">What causes air turbulence and how worried should passengers be?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British passenger has died and seven people have been critically injured after a flight from London to Singapore was hit by turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers onboard the Singapore Airlines plane told of a \u201cdramatic drop\u201d that launched those not wearing a seatbelt into the cabin ceiling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai authorities say Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, probably had heart attack, and seven are critically injured as passengers describe \u2018dramatic drop\u2019What causes air turbulence and how worried should passengers be?A British passenger has died and seven people h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,215,783,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-london","category-singapore","category-thailand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262\/revisions\/64287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}