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More than 20 people were on board Singapore Airlines flights Some passengers who experienced severe turbulence on Tuesday suffered spinal, brain and skull injuries and remained in intensive care, according to a Bangkok hospital that treated some of the passengers.
Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital in the Thai capital is treating 22 patients with spinal and spinal cord problems, six with skull or brain injuries and 13 with bone, muscle and soft tissue problems, Adinun Kittiratanapaibool, the hospital’s director, told reporters on Thursday.
Doctors added that 17 patients underwent surgery, ranging from stitches to spinal surgery. One person died in the incident.
Passengers speak to media after the plane made an emergency landing in Bangkok Some passengers Passengers and crew were thrown around the plane, some hitting their heads on overhead bins and others were seen in shock with bloody facial wounds.
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Passengers describe what it was like on board Singapore Airlines fatal crash
One passenger on the Singapore Airlines flight, Josh Silverstone, said he felt “happy to be alive” as he left the hospital on Wednesday evening.
Speaking to reporters as he disembarked from the plane, the 24-year-old Briton said the turbulence had left him with a cut eye and a chipped tooth, but that some of the passengers were in much worse shape than he was.
Speaking about what happened after the emergency landing in Bangkok, the Silverstone athlete said he began vomiting and sought medical help.
Flight SQ321, from London to Singapore, was cruising at 37,000 feet on Tuesday. The plane It fell sharply before rising Flight tracking data showed the plane reached an altitude of several hundred feet and then climbed and descended repeatedly for about a minute.
Many passengers were eating breakfast at the time of the accident. Video and images from inside the plane after the emergency landing in Bangkok The extent of the damage became apparent, with overhead bins broken and emergency oxygen masks hanging above the seats.
Photos from one galley showed part of the ceiling open, with parts of the cabin hanging down, and trays, containers, plastic bottles and hot drink pots strewn across the floor.
After the accident, the plane, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew members, was diverted to Bangkok, where an ambulance and emergency response team were waiting.
Those injured on the plane included nationals of Australia, Malaysia, Britain, New Zealand, Spain, the United States and Ireland, the hospital said earlier.
Of the 104 passengers reported injured on the plane, 55 remain in hospital.
A 73-year-old British man with heart problems died on the flight, but hospital officials have not confirmed the cause of death.
The man was later identified as Jeff Kitchen, who was described as “always a gentleman of the utmost honesty and integrity” by the Thornbury Musical Theatre Group, where he worked for more than 35 years.
Of the original flight’s passengers and crew, 143 were evacuated to Singapore on a Singapore Airlines evacuation flight on Wednesday morning.
