One person has been killed and several others injured on a Singapore Airlines flight from London that was hit by severe turbulence. 

The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-300ER was diverted to Bangkok and landed at 15:45 local (08:00 GMT).

Flight SQ 321 was carrying a total of 211 passengers and 18 crew, the airline said in a statement.

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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (5 children)

As human caused climate change worsens, air turbulence will increase.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Hey, maybe when the rich (who fly a heck of a lot) start getting a little uncomfy we can actually do something about that climate change thing.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Haha! Ahhh yeah. Fun to think about but no, we’re way past that.

    However, private rail might make a comeback.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The rich go international more than most. And boats are a heck of a lot slower than planes.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You're right, but once we're feeling effects of that magnitude we're already pretty much screwed. We'd need long term corrective action, and basically manually reverse all the damage we've done. it bought as well be teraforming at that point.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    If 20 more were injured then the seatbelt sign probably wasn't on, which means they probably hit clear air turbulence in cruise. Usually the planes ahead will report anything like that so the ones behind it will know what's coming, but this must've been a big bit of windshear one out of nowhere.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    One person has been killed and several others injured

    “I was covered in coffee,” Andrew from London tells our colleagues on 5 Live.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Lol they clearly asked him what he personally experienced. I'm sure the dude would have started with "what happened to others on the flight is terrible" or similar

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    This new flyer left his half filled coffee cup in the seat pocket and it got on my sweater on the way out, I had to wear a stink sweater with old coffee on my chest for the next 12 hours. I feel your pain Andrew from London

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Wow that map of the wiggly London-Singapore flight route really drives home how many airspaces these Europe-SE Asia flights have to skirt around.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The Boeing 777-300ER was designed and built in the early 2000s, long before Boeing had its current quality issues. From the "I'm not saying this happened" statement, it sounds like the person who died didn't have a properly fastened seat belt.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fuck Boeing for many reasons but I don't expect them to control the weather ahead of their flights. I don't get any indication from the article that there was any incompetence involved unless I missed something.

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