Singapore Airlines CEO apologises for ‘traumatic experience’

Singapore Airlines CEO apologises for ‘traumatic experience’

Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong has offered his “deepest apologies to everyone affected” on a London to Singapore flight that encountered severe turbulence

The lone fatality has been identified as 73-year-old Geoff Kitchen, who died of a suspected heart attack

Seventy-one wounded passengers are being treated at a hospital in Bangkok, where the plane made an emergency landing. Six are in critical condition

From the Thai capital, 143 people who were uninjured were flown to Singapore overnight

Singapore’s new PM Lawrence Wong has promised a “thorough investigation” into the incident

 

courtesy BBC