{"id":64292,"date":"2024-05-22T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/singapore-airlines-flight-turbulence-death-sq321"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T05:09:31","slug":"screams-chaos-blood-on-the-floor-passengers-describe-terrifying-turbulence-on-flight-sq321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64292","title":{"rendered":"Screams, chaos, blood on the floor: passengers describe terrifying turbulence on flight SQ321"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers have told of the moment the Singapore Airlines plane hit severe turbulence, sending travellers crashing into the cabin ceiling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/singapore-airlines-flight-turbulence-london-death-latest-details-geoffrey-kitchen\">Singapore PM promises \u2018thorough investigation\u2019 after severe turbulence on flight from London<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It had been an uneventful journey from Heathrow. After 10 hours in the sky, flight SQ321 from London to Singapore was just a few hours from its destination, above the Irrawaddy Basin in Myanmar, when the aircraft dropped. Passengers said it happened in an instant, with little time to respond to warnings to fasten their seatbelts. The plane descended by 6,000ft (1,800 metres) in just three minutes. Passengers who were not strapped in were launched into the ceiling and across the aisles as the aircraft hit a patch of severe turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Flight attendants had been serving breakfast at the time. Coffee and cups of water were thrown into the air, people\u2019s phones, shoes and cushions were flung around.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/singapore-airlines-flight-turbulence-death-sq321\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers have told of the moment the Singapore Airlines plane hit severe turbulence, sending travellers crashing into the cabin ceilingSingapore PM promises \u2018thorough investigation\u2019 after severe turbulence on flight from LondonIt had been an uneventf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4262,"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":[41,783,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore","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\/64292","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\/4262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64292\/revisions\/64310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}