A 73-year-old man from Britain died and seven people were critically injured after a plane encountered severe turbulence on a flight from London to Singapore, officials said on Tuesday.
The plane, a Boeing 777-300ER operated by Singapore Airlines, was diverted to Bangkok, the airline said in an announcement on social media, and landed at 3:45 p.m. local time on Tuesday.
In all, 30 people, both passengers and crew, were injured, officials said. The airline said in a statement that 18 people had been hospitalized and another 12 people were being treated for injuries. “The remaining passengers and crew are being examined and given treatment, where necessary, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok,” the airline said.
The man died aboard the flight, said Kittipong Kittikachorn, the director of Bangkok’s airport, without elaborating on a cause of death. The man’s wife was injured and taken to a hospital, Mr. Kittipong said.
The flight, which had 211 passengers and 18 crew members on board, had left Heathrow Airport on Monday. The exact number of injured people on board was still under investigation, according to a statement from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
