One person on a Singapore Airlines flight died and dozens of others were injured when the plane traveling from London to Singapore "encountered sudden extreme turbulence," the airline said Tuesday. Flight SQ321 from London's Heathrow Airport was diverted to Bangkok and touched down at 3:45 ...
2024. Severe turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore has left one passenger dead and 30 others injured, forcing an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand's capital Bangkok on Tuesday, Thai authorities said. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak) ...
There are clues on where CAT may occur, but generally it can't be detected ahead of time, which means flight crews can be caught unaware with no time to warn passengers and put seat belt signs on. It's been understood for some time that climate cha...
The aircraft appeared to have encountered the turbulence in Thai airspace, somewhere over the Andaman Sea. The flight, which had been scheduled to arrive at Singapore Changi Airport, instead touched down in Thailand at about 3:45 p.m. local time, the carrier said. "We...
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BANGKOK-- A Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet (around 1,800 meters) in about three minutes, the carrier said Tuesday. A British man died and authorities said dozens of passengers were injured, some severely. ...
project manager at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.The centre's new turbulence detector is based on lidar, or laser radar Laser pulses are sent ahead of the plane and these are then reflected back by particles in the air The technique depends on the Dopplereffect....
Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 was on its way from London to Singapore on May 20 when it was diverted to Bangkok, Thailand after experiencing violent turbulence that left some people so injured, they needed spinal surgeries. A 73-year-old British man also died on the flight, but he ...
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Air travel keeps getting scarier ... over a dozen people were injured as a result of severe turbulence on a Korean Air flight ... and adding insult to injury, the cabin became a pig stye.