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Singapore Airlines is providing passengers who have been injured on a flight that encountered “extreme turbulence” not less than $10,000 U.S. {dollars} in compensation.
Flight SQ321 — a Boeing 777-300ER jet — was touring from London to Singapore earlier than it needed to make an emergency touchdown in Bangkok, Thailand, on Could 21 following the incident that left one passenger useless and greater than 100 needing medical consideration. Investigators have stated the aircraft plunged 178 toes in 4.6 seconds.
“For passengers who sustained minor accidents from the incident, we’ve got supplied US$10,000 in compensation,” the airline has introduced.
“Passengers medically assessed as having sustained severe accidents, requiring long-term medical care, and requesting monetary help are supplied an advance cost of US$25,000 to handle their speedy wants,” it added. “This might be a part of the ultimate compensation that these passengers will obtain.”
Airport officers collect close to the plane ladder hooked up to Singapore Airways Flight 321 after it landed at Suvarnabhumi Worldwide Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Photographs)
Singapore Airways additionally stated it can present a full refund of the airfare for all passengers onboard the flight that day — together with those that weren’t damage — and that it has “been masking the medical bills of the injured passengers and organized for his or her relations and family members to fly as much as Bangkok the place requested.”
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| SINGY | SINGAPORE AIRL | 10 | -0.01 | -0.10% |
Dzafran Azmir, a 28-year-old passenger onboard the flight, beforehand informed Reuters that “Abruptly the plane [started] tilting up and there was shaking so I began bracing for what was taking place, and really instantly there was a really dramatic drop so everybody seated and never carrying a seatbelt was launched instantly into the ceiling.”
SINGAPORE AIRLINES FLIGHT THAT HIT DEADLY TURBULENCE FELL 178 FEET IN 4.6 SECONDS
A passenger onboard the Singapore Airways flight informed Reuters that vacationers have been launched out of their seats once they encountered turbulence. (Reuters / Reuters Photographs)
“Each single cabin crew I noticed was injured,” Andrew Davies, one other traveler onboard the flight, informed Reuters. “I did not see anyone who labored for Singapore Airways that was not injured.”
Ali Bukhari, who was a passenger on the flight and was returning for his honeymoon together with his bride, stated that the extreme turbulence was “traumatic.”
“It was a really traumatic expertise, it is laborious to describe in phrases — nobody expects that basically,” he informed Australia’s TV Channel 9.
Passengers of Singapore Airways flight SQ321 from London to Singapore, which made an emergency touchdown in Bangkok, greet relations upon arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore on Could 22, 2024. (Roslan Rahman/AFP by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
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Singapore Airways stated this week that it “deeply apologizes to all passengers for the traumatic expertise on board flight SQ321” and “We’re dedicated to offering our full help and help throughout this time.”
FOX Enterprise’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
