A 73-year-old British man died on this flight which was supposed to reach Singapore but landed urgently in the Thai capital after the incident.
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Twenty people who traveled aboard the chaotic Singapore Airlines flight between London and Singapore on Tuesday are currently in intensive care in hospitals in Bangkok, where the plane had made an emergency landing, several hospitals in the region announced on Wednesday (May 22). Thai capital.
The patients from Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines were in the intensive care units of Samitivej Srinakarin and Samitivej Sukhumvi hospitals, a spokesperson said. word from the Bangkok hospital group to AFP.
A Boeing of the Singaporean company, which was carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew members, experienced Tuesdaye “strong turbulence” at 11,000 meters above sea level during a flight to Singapore. One person died – a 73-year-old British man – and 104 other people on board were injured, according to the authorities. Flight tracking data shows the plane fell more than 1,800m in just five minutes over the Andaman Sea off the coast of Thailand.
