The seatbelt sign came on moments after the plane started shaking, but, for some, it was too late.
“Whoever wasn’t buckled down, they were just launched into the air within the cabin,” said Dzafran Azmir, who was among the 211 passengers on board the London-to-Singapore flight that encountered deadly turbulence on Tuesday.
Others were families and some who had planned a “holiday of a lifetime” to far-flung destinations like Australia.
By this time, the plane had reached the Bay of Bengal, which sits between the Indian subcontinent and the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
Some pilots consider the region “notorious” this time of the year because its monsoon rains can cause turbulence.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Singapore Airlines Boeing
Locations:
Singapore, England, Australia, Bengal, Malay, Southeast Asia