Brit describes carnage on turbulence-hit Singapore Airlines as passengers battled in vain to revive man with CPR while others were left with ‘bleeding ears’ and ‘screaming in pain’ when jet plunged 6,000ft

Passengers have described the carnage that occurred when a Singapore Airlines plane plunged 6,000 feet amid terrifying turbulence, killing one passenger and injuring 30.

Authorities have said the deceased is a 73-year-old British man, and said he likely died as a result of a heart attack during the “chaotic” incident. They added that he was traveling with his wife, who is now in hospital.

Andrew Davies, an events manager from Lewisham who was on the flight, described how the unnamed man was given CPR by fellow passengers before he tragically died.

The plane’s sudden fall threw passengers into the air. Those not wearing seatbelts are said to have suffered horrific injuries, including ‘head wounds and bleeding ears’.

“The ‘seat belt’ sign came on, I immediately put my seat belt on and the plane just fell,” Mr Davies wrote on her was 30 years old’. of flying’.

Mr Davies said ‘a lot of people’ were injured – ‘including the stewards who were stoic and did everything they could.’

He added that he and fellow passengers who were not injured are now in a waiting area at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, where the flight from Heathrow to Singapore was forced to make an emergency landing.

A passenger was killed and 30 others injured on a flight from London to Singapore this afternoon, forcing an emergency landing in Thailand. Pictured: The plane and ambulances are seen today on the tarmac of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport

A passenger on board a Singapore Airlines plane from Britain has described the extreme turbulence that killed a fellow pilot in a tragic incident today. Pictured: Passengers and crew are seen in the aftermath of extreme turbulence on the Singapore Airlines plane today

Mr Davies, who was traveling to Wellington in New Zealand for work, said: ‘My heart goes out to the gentleman who lost his life and his poor wife. Terrible experience.

‘Passengers with medical training helped as much as they could. CPR for the poor gentleman who came by,” he said, adding that they “called for a defibrillator.”

“Another passenger was lying flat in the aisle further behind me. I’m not sure what happened to them. I wish I could have helped more.”

Davies said The times that the crew was on their feet when it happened, and after that I don’t think I saw a single one of them who wasn’t injured.

‘One of the men was clearly in a lot of back pain, but he and the rest carried on stoically.’

“The lesson is: ALWAYS wear a seat belt,” he said. “Everyone who was injured was not wearing a seatbelt. People they stopped (myself included) are not (as far as I could tell).”

“People’s belongings scattered, coffee and water splashed on the ceiling. Surreal. So many injured: head wounds, bleeding ears. One lady was screaming in pain and had a bad back. I couldn’t help her, I just got her water.’

He said that when the plane landed “emergency services were in Bangkok.” [were] react fast. Very little warning.”

Dzafran Azmir, who was on board the flight, said of the dramatic events: ‘Suddenly the plane started to tilt up and there was shaking, so I started to brace myself for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a very dramatic fall, so that everyone sat down and who was not wearing a seat belt was immediately launched into the ceiling.

‘Some people hit their heads on the overhead bins and made a dent in them. They hit the places where there are lamps and masks and broke right through them,” the 28-year-old student said.

The Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 plane left Britain’s Heathrow Airport at 10:17 pm local time on Monday evening with 211 passengers and 18 crew on board.

However, Flight SQ321 encountered severe turbulence as it flew close to Myanmar airspace, in a region currently plagued by extreme tropical thunderstorms.

The plane stayed at 31,000 feet for just under 10 minutes before descending rapidly and landing in Bangkok in just under half an hour. The descent took place while the flight was over the Andaman Sea and approaching Myanmar.

The plane – registered as 9V-SWM – was diverted to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, where it made an emergency landing at 3.45pm local time, the airline announced on its Facebook page.

The landing was scheduled to take place at Singapore Changi Airport at 6:10 PM local time.

Today a person is carried off the plane on a stretcher in Bangkok

This flight tracker showed the plane’s route from London before diverting to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport

Flight tracking websites showed that flight SQ321 deviated from its planned route to Singapore and instead landed at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport

In a statement on Facebook (photo), Singapore Airlines confirmed the emergency landing

Ambulances were depicted on the tarmac next to the plane.

Local media reported that one passenger was killed and about 30 others were injured, leading to the emergency landing. It was not immediately clear where the person killed in the incident was from.

A man who said he was on the run took to X (formerly Twitter) to describe the incident.