'I Was Dripping Blood': Inside One of the Worst Turbulence Accidents Ever

[Zorro]

Ali Bukhari was still groggy from a midflight nap when he felt the plane plummet.

It wasn’t the end he was expecting for his honeymoon.

The 27-year-old Australian engineer and his wife, Ramiza, had spent two idyllic weeks in Iceland—a trip for which they had been saving since their wedding a couple of years ago. They had wanted to go somewhere extra special, Bukhari said. Getting back meant a lot of flying—first to London, then Singapore and finally home to Sydney—but they thought it would be worth it.

That changed 10 hours after their departure from London’s Heathrow Airport. The Singapore Airlines plane they were on lurched, violently. An elderly man sitting in front of Bukhari was thrown through the air and across the aisle, slamming into the bank of seats running down the middle. Oxygen masks dropped, and so did some of the boxes that held them.

“My wife and I thought we were going to die,” Bukhari said. “We didn’t think we were going to make it.”

https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/i-was-dripping-blood-inside-the-turbulence-hit-singapore-airlines-plane-42029462?st=magaqevw4seetrb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[WhiteTara]

1. now you know why you should NEVER take off your seat belt

while flying. I'm sorry for all the injuries, it must have been a horror show. I might have had a heart attack too.

[dickthegrouch]

2. I had been getting really complacent with the belt

But after multiple issues similar to this, I’m a convert back to wearing them.

[dalton99a]

3. The only protection against clear-air turbulence, which no one can predict, is a seat belt.