{"id":64294,"date":"2024-05-22T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/singapore-airlines-flight-turbulence-london-death-latest-details-geoffrey-kitchen"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:54:03","slug":"singapore-pm-promises-thorough-investigation-after-severe-turbulence-on-flight-from-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64294","title":{"rendered":"Singapore PM promises \u2018thorough investigation\u2019 after severe turbulence on flight from London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Wong offered his condolences to the family of Geoffrey Kitchen who died during the Singapore Airlines flight that left others critically injured<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/briton-who-died-on-singapore-airlines-flight-named-as-geoffrey-kitchen\">Briton who died on Singapore Airlines flight named as Geoffrey Kitchen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s prime minister has promised a \u201cthorough investigation\u201d after a British passenger died and six people were critically injured during turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from London.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming that 131 passengers and 12 crew had now safely landed in Singapore on a different plane, Lawrence Wong offered his condolences to the family of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/21\/briton-who-died-on-singapore-airlines-flight-named-as-geoffrey-kitchen\">73-year-old grandfather, Geoffrey Kitchen<\/a>, who died. According to Thai authorities, he had a heart condition and probably had a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/singapore-airlines-flight-turbulence-london-death-latest-details-geoffrey-kitchen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Wong offered his condolences to the family of Geoffrey Kitchen who died during the Singapore Airlines flight that left others critically injuredBriton who died on Singapore Airlines flight named as Geoffrey KitchenSingapore\u2019s prime minister ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[376,665,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-airline-industry","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64294","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64294\/revisions\/64311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}