What happened on Singapore Airlines flight hit by extreme turbulence?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- A British man has died and 30 others have been injured after their flight from London to Singapore hit severe turbulence.
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One passenger said the plane suffered a "dramatic drop", throwing those not wearing seatbelts onto the ceiling.
Seven of those injured are in a critical condition. The man who died is thought to have had a heart attack.
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As someone who has always been slapdash about wearing my seat belt, I think i will be wearing my seatbelt from now on. I imagine most the injuries occured in people who were not strapped down and hit the roof of the plane.
Kitty you are such a slapdash!
Same here. Especially during long flights when people are sleeping.
Very good advice,I always wear my seatbelt regardless,unless I have to go to the toilet.
@@jimduffy1967 same here.
>I imagine most the injuries occured in people who were not strapped down and hit the roof of the plane.
that's exactly what a passenger on that flight said
Given that the average number of commercial flights per day is 97,439, it’s quite remarkable these types of incident are vanishingly rare.
They'll apparently be increasingly common as climate change (to which aviation of course contributes) worsens.
Vanishingly?
@@Silks-Yes, ‘vanishingly’.
@@sabaidaniel555 🤣
@@titteryenot4524 so these types on incident are becoming so rare that there’ll eventually be no incidents? Think you used the wrong word kiddo.
This is why I don’t like seeing heavy cases in overhead lockers.. especially hard cases 😢
I never understand why people like to do that. I get that a person or 2 might need to carry on a huge one but apparently it's a lot of people these days. I was flying on the same route as the Singapore airlines flight 2 weeks ago and there was a guy who not only filled his overhead compartment but had stuff in a few others over the aisle seats! And to make it worse he kept opening them again and again and again throughout the flight and was walking around and doing stuff all the while and won't remain seated. He had so many stuff in so many places that he had to open like 10 compartments when he wasn't sure where to get something. Granted he was with his wife and they had a small baby, but those folks were completely reckless and inundated the cabin crew with endless requests. I personally try to fly as lightly as possible. That day I only had my laptop bag with me and had no problem keeping it under my seat because that guy filled the airplane with his stuff. Luckily the seat next to me was empty so it wasn't too bad.
As long as it’s under 7 kg, it should be okay in MOST cases. Why most airlines weigh your carry on luggage these days. Some people can’t afford the extra luggage fees and also airlines lose your luggage way too often.
Greetings to all. My deepest condolences for the woman who was also injured, and loss of her husband , and all people affected, and injured due to severe turbulence. My prayers are with you all!
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I have taken that flight many times... the Singapore Airlines crew are always brilliant, hope everyone recovers ... very frightening for all involved.
it's not really possible to recover from "passing away".
@@abody499 But it is!
Lol.
@@abody499u div.
It's not Singapore Airlines fault.
sudden drops out of nowhere are my biggest fear when on a plane, that feeling is awful of just dropping a few hundred feet in a second or two
My friend flew me to Switzerland from the uk for my birthday.
On the way back we had crosswind turbulence.
The plane was dropping and it felt like the “swoosh” of a roller coaster.
I was absolutely terrified.
I counted the 02 building 32 times until it was safe to land, nightmare.
UN Rapporteur .......
th-cam.com/video/VeLm2B53VLI/w-d-xo.html
I lived through an earthquake,
My heart was racing
Out of my chest.
We had a sudden drop during a flight from Edinburgh and it was terrifying. Happened without a warning too, thankfully all were buckled in at that point. This one was much worse and must have happened totally unexpectedly when people walked and moved around. My condolences. Awful thing to happen.
My condolences 🙏... God consoul his family and friends..
Was it normal drops like a few feet or was it like a ten feet drop
Kudos to the pilots they still managed to control the aircraft
It was probably on autopilot
@@PedroHenriquePS00000proof
Im from Myanmar, Yangon above where the incident occurs. We are experiencing deadly heat wave for a month as i remember. But since 2-3 ago unexpected thunderstorms are happening because of the storm. May be it is one of the factors.
I was wondering if it was anything to do with the recent huge solar flare that has hit our magnetosphere (that keeps our planet protected). Its affected the current heatwave here in UK for sure, with thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow (Wed).
Definitely the pop up storms. I’m in Thailand and I’ve never been so melted before in my life, and I’m from Las Vegas. Now, the past 10 days has been beyond wet because some how winds shifted and wind is being blowing from the Andaman
I was on a plane from Mauritius last week and the same thing happened on a Boeing, it was very sudden and the seatbelt sign was switched off at the time. People were sleeping across seats and got lifted up out of their seats and woken up my screams! Always wear a seat belt!
What date was that?
Was that a BA Boeing 777 too? Air Mauritius flies airbus
I never remove my seat belt unless I need the loo
Could happen whilst in the loo
@@epposcrap Did to me on the way to Dallas Fort Worth - end destination New Mexico a few years back.
Bit like being in a washing machine with not much to hold onto either. I staggered out of the loo with hair all over the place looking like a banshee and wryly cried 'Wow, what was in that meal we just had?' Purely out of acute embarrassment. The passengers, mostly American, were watching and waiting - they actually cheered and clapped. Terrible experience though and I was pretty bruised.
@@epposcrap true but you need to chance it or piddle in your seat 💺 😂
...then get up and go , return to your seat and buckle up. How hard is that.
Always go with a window seat (less chance of stuff from the overheads hitting you). Always buckle up for the whole flight unless standing up to go to the toilet.
What is wrong with people “ohhhh someone’s hurt let’s film it”
Sad isn't it
So disrespectful
Most people on the planet are stupid sheep
The news would be happy to have footage
Very sad . Condolences to his family and friends .
Fingers crossed the newly grieving family are now trawling TH-cam for comments of condolence, otherwise your comment might be entirely pointless, narcissistic and self serving.
@@Jules-hn6un as is yours..
@@Jules-hn6unfingers crossed the newly grieving family don’t see your sarcastic comment below an otherwise seemingly genuine comment 🙄
@@saraboot8002 haha. Looks like Jules woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
@@AJzilllaPro I have to agree with you 😏
A plane being slammed down in turbulance around 150ft is no joke. Aircraft are nuts. Xx
One decade ago, I was on a flight to La Reunion island, and we got in what I thought was called an "air pocket". The aircraft quickly lost altitude, dropping rapidly until it recovered, which felt like having hit a hard stop.
Fortunately, no service was being carried out by the flight attendants, however some of the passengers were injured; mainly those who were not sitting strapped to their seats.
The pilot came on the PA to apologize and said this was not detected on his radar, hence why we got no warning.
I have been flying since the early 80's, and this has so far been the only time I experienced such a drastic event.
Even if the wings are supposedly capable of handling the stress, it really feels terrible for the few seconds you don't understand what is happening...
This is something I am not looking forward to going through again!!! It is incredibly scary, especially because the initial feeling is that you are going down!
I have flown hundreds of times over the Atlantic and gone through some very serious storms ...have faced sudden drops ....but nothing like this . Remember a particular drop over Holand after take off not long after with Lufthansa but the pilot hung on to that plane and we all had the seat belt fasten up..
"no one want's leave a plane like this" jesus christ channel 4
why did jesus allow this to happen? that strong wind could have been whisked away.
@@DerekDavis213 "god's will".
i heard it works in mysterious ways.
0:04 you haven't flown to ibiza mate
Why is this becoming so common nowadays?
More traffic and climate change
I wonder how the cabin crew reacted😮, they have such a hard job , even more so in situation like this one, thanks but not thanks.😒
Amazing what stress airliners can take
Didn't the door fall off a Boeing when it was up in the air? Maybe Airbus can handle the stress better?
It's the squishy humans that are the weakest part
Turbulence is horrible
I’ve been on two United airlines flights when something simple but not as serious happened. And both times it’s was a year apart leaving the same airport - Auckland. Heading to LAX. The plane got turbulence and went up and down and shook so much I thought that surely the wings would rip off. And on one flight the plane just dropped and everyone screamed. But then flew out of it and continued on our way so the pilots must not have thought it too bad. One thing though was we did get a few minutes warning and they had to stop serving meals and the crew sit down. And I have flown frequently since but those two flights had me scared.
Why do you need to show the dead victim. It is just hurtful for the family, and adds nothing to the news.
Could somebody on here please explain how serious heat can cause thunderstorms which in turn can cause serious turbulence.. Turbulence is a term used as I understand it where you have large differences in air pressure going from very high to very low in a matter of a few seconds. The pressure can be so low that it's like flying in a vacuum with no air to support the flight so it literally falls until it hits more air at a higher pressure. Without air obviously there is no up thrust to support the aircrafts weight and it just falls literally..
God bless your oll and singapore
150 feet downwards in a few seconds is horrendous. God bless that man and his family.
How dreadful! 😢
I read elsewhere that the aircraft pitched up and was shaking and then dropped suddenly.
Sorry, but that sounds remarkably like a stall to me.
You'd think turbulence would have to be at an insane level to cause a plane to stall. Must not have been much above that speed, and very high altitude, and a humongous sudden tailwind, perhaps?
Unfortunate way to die, for sure.
Be interested to hear if they can deduce (& publish) what happened
They only lost 400ft in the drop. That’s not a stall
I am sorry for this loss 😢💔
Mate, it’s one old fk who had a heart attack. Chill out lmfaob
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 yep. You are a proper bell sniff.
🕊️Deepest sympathy to family of the deceased. Praying for your peace!!!🕊️
I was on a flight to Singapore many years ago when I was one of the Cabin Crew. We were just about to serve 450 hot meals before we dropped nearly 100ft. We landed safely, no one was injured. It happens in that part of the world sometimes but nothing to do with the aircraft.
this is not severe turbulence it is something else I suspect pilot error or major malfunction of aircraft - turbulence does not cause aircrafts to pitch up vertically then fall - I suspect the plane stalled from some sort of error
Of course turbulence does exactly that. Severe turbulence is sudden winds that go upwards and downwards.
@@MrSchwabentier - there has never been turbulence to cause any 777 to stall
@@majorrgeek yeah obviously, because it didn’t stall
@@MrSchwabentier - this was a stall - planes don't drop 6000 feet by turbulence - learn what turbulence is
@@majorrgeek what are you on about?! They dropped 100-150ft. After that the pilots initiated a quick descent of 6000ft. At least get your facts straight before you tell others to learn about turbulence.
i flew out of Bangkok a couple weeks ago. alot of rocking side to side theres always a bit of turbulence in that area and the rainy season has started with a vengeance so alot of storms atm with the chance of air pockets
0:34 Won Mahn was from the UK
So so sad always fasten your belts when the sign comes on
Fasten the seatbelts even when the sign isn't on. Safety is number one.
It happened when seatbelt sign wasn't turned on.
O.m.g.god bless everybody on that plane.😢
This is what seatbelts are for.
Sparsely i thanks flight captain and air line croo thay do bast for the passenger good job god bless you oll i am jude lasantha perera from sri lanka love you singapore
Very sad
This is why I always keep my belt on
That’s why belts need to remain fastened the entire trip 👌🏼
Well there’s some weird weather and wind effects out those parts, most like due to some combination of mountains and tropical air currents mixing with non tropical or localised hot and cold streams.
Maybe 6/7 years ago we performed south east asias largest aircraft field repair in Loei Thailand, swapping out the entire tail section for a Q400 that upon landing dropped 25ft out the air onto its tail due wind shear and bent the whole empennage
Pilots need extra training on how to avoid flying through a turbulence, it is just like a car driver avoiding a massive pothole on the road. Nowadays pilots and air companies worry more about arrivals and departures time target than flight safety.
Turbulence is not visible, like a pothole. Or do you disagree?
You can't control turbulence, it can happen anytime.
@@DerekDavis213 Turbulence is not an invisible thing, GPS magnetic system alert Pilots in advance about turbulences ahead, but no car has a navigation system that alerts them on potholes.
@@davidmastaki _no car has a navigation system that alerts them on potholes._
The Tesla FSD system, with 8 cameras and AI and Neural Networks is too dumb to see potholes on the road, and avoid them.
Any high school kid can drive around a pothole.
Didn't they put on their seatbelts
He died of a heart attack…
Most flights i am on have for a long time requested everyone to wear their seatbelts even when there is no turbulence, as there has been a lot of incidents where people get injured when a sudden bit of turbulence is experienced. Shame everyone was not belted in , this would have been a none story if so.
So so gald that was me on that flight last year
This is why you need to wear your seatbelt at all times.
What if i need to pee? I just pee while seated buckled in?
Have seetbelts.. Why don use
Is it possible that the plane encountered a microburst?
What is the cause of death ? Was he hit by something ? Heart attack ?
Could this be the same thing that happened to flight mh370?
Sad news
Aside from the guy who had a heart attack, this is why airplanes have seatbelts. And you couldn’t argue against it because you’re shown how to use them at the beginning of the flight and there is even a light to tell you when you must wear your seatbelt. The pilots obviously would’ve had the lights on because they would’ve been very aware of the the weather. So like I said nobody should’ve actually been injured (aside from the heart attack).
keep your seatbelt on at all times, folks
The aircraft dropped 6000 feet in seconds Not "150 feet."
No, it dropped 150ft and then the pilots initiated a 6000ft descent that took 3 minutes
There is nothing new here regarding wearing seatbelts, I'm a very nervous flyer & I always wear my seatbelt, it's tightened before take off & also before landing, I'll have it on the entire flight (loosely) so that I can feel comfortable & possibly get some sleep.....
EASY what happened The plane runs automatically when it enters air turbulence while the pilot and copilot fall asleep, so it is unable to avoid turbulence location
When you don’t know the truth but the whole truth, dont say
777 has advanced weather Radar any pilot is able to Avoid entering turbulence
@@drdajohclear air turbulence isn’t visible on weather radar.
So sad
Lost island?
Nobody seems to care about the plane, how does it feel?
Was on a flight from Yemen years ago that hit bad turbulence near Italy and the plane kept dropping. I'm vomiting my heart out (with nearly everyone else on the flight) but my five year old autistic son was whooping for joy every time the plane dropped. I remember thinking that he will at least die happy 🤣
My prayers to all who are affected. My deepest condolences to the one.
Pray all suffered the least!
Keep seatbelt on
It is pure negiglence of Singapore Air without notice the radar
Clear Air Turbulence can’t be detected by radar
So sad and yet PREVENTABLE 😢🙏
damn u work ur entire life and die at 73 and its not ur fault
Maybe haven't been checked over before flying
Why didn't the pilot put the seatbelt sign on???
Because there was no warning of turbulences
always keep the seatbelt on
*Always *.
He had a heart attack.... Dont think having a seatbelt on would have saved him.
@@Astrophobia88 If he went flying out his seat and got an injury it would put strain on your heart. I’m not saying it’s the cause, and I’m not victim blaming because a lot of people don’t have it on when they don’t have to and it’s not in the rules that you need it on either.
These events are common enough however, and I don’t even notice when I’m strapped in or not. I never used to wear it until I saw someone say they always wear theirs and it made complete sense so I did it ever since.
I’d be interested to know if there was another aircraft in the vicinity at the time……
Wake turbulence can be horrific - as a pilot, I know this from personal experience.
Particularly if there’s an Airbus A380 anywhere near you ….
No, there wasn’t.
BIG WARNING MESSAGE
So you dotnt know what caused it? Terrible
What ???
Seeing this is a complete freak horror story and has became a notorious flight incident as a trend, ever since MH370, but this is no missing incident.
While part of aviation history in Southeast Asia, this has to be one of the most notorious incidents, in which people are breaching o er a simple need in hiearchy, a lessonnthat must be learned in future times likethese. Condolences to all passengers who have been injured, and rest in peace the 73 year old Brit who passed away of a severe turbulent heart attack
I hope the old man at least did a cool backflip before he hit the deck!
❤Is what they witnessed captured on video by cabin area security camera, if any? Why has the world not asked for this footage
???
I was following that plane on flightradar24 at that time
Wait, they were rambling (gbn and etc) the whole morning upon how it's important to get strap in and bla bla and now we find out that that passenger has died from a heart attack. Pff
same modus operandi the powers that be used during the pandi regarding the fuchi ouchi clotshots when most peopledied of heart attacks and some from car crashes but counted them all as caused by COVID to pad the numbers and push their agenda
Singapore airlines, while itself being expensive, has a budget division called "Scoot". Scoot is the cheapest most basic flight to Asia you can buy.
You know it's cheap because they don't supply free water and if you use the seat in front to support yourself it will feel like it is collapsing. The plastic being so ridiculously thin and flimsy.
Also, for some reason, flying with Singapore airline's Scoot was the most uncomfortable flight I have experienced. Even painful.
Personally, even though I am a budget traveler and regularly fly to and from Asia, I avoid them like I would avoid dog excrement.
Believe me, I prefer budget over quality but not this low level scrimping.
On an 11 hour pressurised flight you expect to be comfortable and kept alive with water.
You get none of this with Singapore airlines's Scoot.
thats a budget airline. Singapore airlines is not budget and is generally one of the best airlines in the world. i always fly with hem when possible, and i am normally flying the london to singapore route.
@@CraigCameron-uq2wc I tried it once because it stops in Thailand before going to Singapore. Normaly I use Thai Airways.
I will never use this company again nor will I use Singapore airlines again. To me, they are not so good. Etihad is much much superior for a decent quality economy flight.
Singapore airlines fails. Thai Airways is the champion.
Thailand wins.
SIA is literally the number 1 ranked airlines in the world in 2023. Thai airways isn't even close at 40. SIA has not had a single death on board since 2000, this being only the second ever. The bay of bengal is known for extreme turbulence, this is not the first time this has happened and can happen to any plane. Scoot, while being a subsidiary operates almost independently and should be treated as a seperate airline. Bringing up a budget airline (which is honestly still better than many non-budget western options) or the quality of an airline in this case is pointless. Perhaps the only negative point is that SIA do not order planes with an area to store a body, because deaths are extremely rare for them.
@@LukeSciberraschannel
I did not read an encyclopedia in order to give my personal opinion. I can only say what I know from my personal experience.
I recommend Thai Airways for various reasons. I don't recommend Singapore airlines for various reasons.
The reasons are clearly stated above.
I don't have time or interest to check your claims. No problem, I already know what I know.
@@LukeSciberraschannel Scoot is clearly belonging to singapore airlines. You simply need to Google it.
Maybe seatbelt in the loo is needed too
most probably it was an A380 passing by and creating heavy turbulence...
No, there was no other aircraft close enough for such an event
It shows clearly it is a risk profession and the government should pay us (cabin crew) money for that reason. That's a thing at the moment that doesn't compensate.
Like in Italy the government pays €50 its day of work!
After that experience no one will fly for sure.
Well yeah, you can't sit in your seat and poop
Turbulence, or another Boeing issue?
Turbulence.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
Thank god for Airbus.
@@DerekDavis213 yep. Same.
Maybe both?!
The A380 is way more stable than the Dreamliner. Turbulence or not.
Harp probably
Should have had seatbelts on then they wouldn’t have been thrown
And people shouldn't drive cars incase they get into an accident
It was caused by the solar storm???
I've just commented the same thing. It's affected the earth's magnetosphere for sure.
Singapore happened.
just abit of wind. prob next time don't serve beans on airlines
They ask you to wear your seat belt at all times for fun you know!
And how would the seat belt have prevented the heart attack?
even in car crashes seat belts can kill people, he obviously was frightened and went into heart failure, nothing to do with the seat belt.
Not only that, you will be explicitly told to fasten your seat belt in case of turbulance. Not much to do with the Brit though as he died of heart attack. But the 30 injuries could've been prevented.
@@arinc9 How do you know they were not strapped? The injuries could easily come from all the things flying around the plane.
@@HolyNarzbecause it’s been reported that people were smashed against the overhead lockers. Now I know that some of these could have been hit by objects or with unfortunate timing getting up to go to toilet etc. Also a lot will crew, but I guarantee some will be those who couldn’t be arsed to buckle up as dinner was being served.
What a shoddy caption.......man dies after severe turbulence........
The Singapore 777 pilots should be called out and investigated for their negligence resulting in the death of one person and major injuries to many - what happened to seat belt warnings? if this was due to turbulence, which I do not agree for one minute, then there would have been evidence on the weather radars etc and the route changed to avoid it and make all passengers sit and belt up but as always this will be covered up with massive corruption by the authorities and airlines
The general manager has a funny name, should just call him KK
Why do I not believe the "turbulence" story?
American?
@@helenpauls1496 haha perfect response 👍
Because conspiracies are a convenient way for people to bypass the fact they haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about.
Because you listen to numpties on rumble and telegram and smoke too much weed?
@@anthonymaddaford8474 I'm a man of God, I don't smoke weed
Aren’t these instances increasing due to global warming because of unpredictable air currents?
Yes
Many years earlier, Singapore had an exploded passenger airplane in taiwan killing 83 :
wiki
Singapore_Airlines_Flight_006
Honestly I don't want to travel by air 😢😢
I am more scared of cars.