'Sheer terror': Passengers describe turbulence-hit plane that plummeted, put 20 in intensive care

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Singapore Airlines flight passengers described the aircraft shuddering, loose items flying and people wrenched so badly that 20 remain hospitalized.

Passengers on the Singapore Airlines flight that plummeted after hitting severe turbulence described the “sheer terror” of the aircraft shuddering, loose items flying and people wrenched so badly that 20 remained Wednesday in intensive care. “I arrived back in the airport and I couldn’t stop vomiting. I couldn’t walk, it was pretty bad,' said Josh Silverstone, 24, who was discharged from a hospital with a cut in his eye and a chipped tooth. He said it could have been “way worse.

Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital, where most of the injured were taken, said the 20 people in intensive care include six Britons, six Malaysians, three Australians, two Singaporeans and one person each from Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Passenger Beverley Mayers, who was not injured, described the situation inside the plane as “sheer terror.' “The whole plane was shuddering ...

 

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