'Sheer terror': Passengers on Singapore Airlines flight describe nightmare after plane hit 'severe turbulence'
Singapore Airlines Flight 321 forced to make emergency landing in Bangkok, Thailand, following «severe turbulence» that left 1 dead.
Passengers onboard a Singapore Airlines aircraft that encountered «severe turbulence» described the «sheer terror» during the critical moments when the Boeing jet was left «shuddering.»
The aircraft, which had 211 passengers and 18 crew onboard, was heading from London to Singapore when it encountered «severe turbulence,» which left one passenger dead and 104 passengers needing medical attention.
Ali Bukhari, who was a passenger on the flight and was returning for his honeymoon with his bride, said that the severe turbulence was «traumatic.»
«It was a very traumatic experience, it's hard to describe in words — no one expects that really,» he told Australia’s TV Channel 9.
VIDEO SHOWS SINGAPORE AIRLINES CABIN IN DISARRAY AFTER ‘SEVERE TURBULENCE’ LEAVES 1 DEAD
A passenger onboard the Singapore Airlines flight told Reuters that travelers were launched out of their seats when they encountered turbulence. (Reuters / Reuters Photos)
Passenger Beverley Mayers described the «sheer terror» as Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 plunged nearly 6,000-foot descent in about three minutes.
«The whole plane was shuddering… great pieces were falling off and dropping on the floor, people getting hit in the head,» she told Australia’s TV Channel 9 on arrival at Sydney airport.
Mayers said that she thought that the plane was going to split in half.
I think we all thought the plane was going to fall apart.
«I think we all thought the plane was going to fall apart, I thought it was going to go in halves here,» she told the Australian outlet. «When they got us off the plane, there were a few of the staff who'd
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