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“Taylor Swift cancels her trip to Singapore and the UK after extreme turbulence hits a Singapore Airlines flight from the UK, resulting in 73 deaths and 23 injuries, seven critically.”

After around 11 hours of flying time from take off in London, the aircraft hit an air pocket and sharply dropped 6,000 feet in five minutes, unleashing mayhem and forcing it to make an emergency landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airp

Brit, 73, dies and 23 are injured, seven critically, when extreme turbulence hits Singapore Airlines flight from UK
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The passenger who died onboard a Singapore Airlines jet travelling from the UK today was a 73-year-old British man, Thai officials have confirmed.

After around 11 hours of flying time from take off in London, the aircraft hit an air pocket and sharply dropped 6,000 feet in five minutes, unleashing mayhem and forcing it to make an emergency landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport.

Terrified passengers have described how they had little warning to put their seatbelts on before the aircraft suddenly dropped while the crew were serving breakfast, with one passenger saying people were ‘launched into the ceiling’ as the plane fell through the sky.

Of the plane’s 211 passengers (including 47 Brits) and 18 crew, one person was left dead and 23 injured. Of those, officials said seven suffered critical head injuries.

Suvarnabhumi airport general manager Kittipong Kittikachorn told a press conference that the deceased was a 73-year-old British man who was travelling with his wife. He likely suffered a heart attack, the official said.

The man’s name was not immediately released. Kittikachorn added that the pensioner’s wife is also in hospital, but that herconditionwasunknown.Passengers have described how the plane dropped in mid-air as it encountered extreme turbulence near Myanmar airspace.