'Blood everywhere' inside the cabin: Passengers 'blacked out' in severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines...

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Passengers on a flight from London to Singapore which plummeted in severe turbulence have described their terror at being caught in a mid-air plunge which has left one man dead and as many as 30 people injured.

Passengers have described chaotic scenes on board Singapore Airlines plane flight SQ321, with people and objects suddenly launched across the cabin.The plane, with 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, dropped sharply from 37,000ft to 31,000ft in just five minutes near Myanmar airspace around 11 hours into its journey.Any passengers on board not wearing seatbelts were “launched into the ceiling," survivors later said.

The post said: "It is with a heavy heart that we learn of the devastating news of the passing of our esteemed colleague and friend Geoff Kitchen in the recent Singapore Air Incident."Geoff was always a gentleman with the utmost honesty and integrity and always did what was right for the group.

 

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