LONDON. For months he had wished to spend a vacation in Australia along with his spouse Geoffrey Kitchen, the 73-year-old British citizen who died yesterday of a coronary heart assault on a Singapore Airlines flight which discovered itself on the heart of horrible turbulence. A retired insurance coverage skilled with a ardour for newbie theater – he and his spouse based the Thornbury Musical Theater Group – he boarded the aircraft at Heathrow Airport along with his spouse Linda.
Singapore: very violent turbulence on the flight from London, one useless and dozens injured. Pictures
Father and grandfather, initially from Bristol, he had lived in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, for many of his life. His ardour for theater had pushed him to this metropolis to assist a marketing campaign for the reopening of Armstrong Hall, beforehand used for a number of theatrical productions.
“That man was sitting behind me,” stated Andrew Davies, one other passenger on that flight, on a enterprise journey to New Zealand. “Many individuals wanted assist, however we took care of this gentleman and I helped carry him, get him out of the chair and put him on the ground in order that some medical doctors might resuscitate him.”
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Davies, sitting on the entrance of the aircraft, noticed most of the individuals injured by that “vacancy” of the aircraft. The Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER flight was at an altitude of 37 thousand ft when, round 10 am (Italian time), it suffered the sudden change in altitude within the midst of the turbulence: it misplaced round 2 thousand meters of altitude in lower than 5 minutes. A daunting leap into the void, which brought about – along with the dying of Geoffrey Kitchen – dozens of accidents, a few of whom are nonetheless in critical circumstances.
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The aircraft – which was carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew members (considered one of whom was among the many injured) – was diverted to Bangkok, Thailand, the place it landed at 3.45pm.