Passenger dies after Boeing 777 experiences turbulence | DW News 

this is the exact reason my seatbelt stays on the ENTIRE FLIGHT unless i am getting up for the restroom.

The 777 is not carbon fiber that is the 787, that expert is not so expert.

Thank God they didn't crash but my condolences to the one individual who died.

If you feel uncomfortable with the seatbelt on, loosen it to keep you in, so long as you keep it on

02:26 "777 is carbon fiber" .......expert?.....really.....

It is not true that the plane "dropped" 6000 feet. The descent toward Bangkok from 37,000 feet to 31,000 was not part of the turbulence event, but a standard controlled descent to a new flight level, and was after the turbulence

I keep the seatbelt on at all times.

I have always kept my seat belt on during the whole flight. It seemed foolish not to.

High time seatbelts become mandatory full time in planes. You don’t like it - walk, run, swim, take a car (wearing a seatbelt) or risk breaking your neck because of turbulence. Easy to fix. Saves injuries and lives.

I can’t imagine being in the bathroom when this happens.

A complete ban on carry-on luggage would be going way too far. You could make a rule that passangers aren't allowed to access the over-head compartments for part or all of the flight, and that would be more than enough. Carry on bag dimensions can be changed as well. Airlines lose your checked bags so often, and also often make you wait a ridiculously long time for your checked luggage, and charge unreasonable rates for luggage, and there's still lots of space in those overhead compartments, so it would be totally absurd to ban carry on luggage completely.

Years ago, my nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, had to make an emergency landing in Chicago because turbulence had caused a heavy food cart unit to fly up into the air and land on the leg of a stewardess, as well as some injured passengers who had not heeded the captain’s announcement about the seatbelt requirement due to a turbulence warning 20 minutes prior to when it actually hit. All the passengers, including myself who fastened our seatbelts had no issues. I discovered that there was a passenger sound asleep face down, holding a pillow in the center row ahead of me because he suddenly levitated above the seats with eyes popping out from the shock of being awakened to discover that he was floating for about one second. What startled me was the sound of the plane when it encountered the turbulence. It was an enormous BOOM, probably caused by the luggage hold, as well as the items in the overhead bins suddenly banging in one synchronous moment from the severe drop in altitude. The shrieking from some of the passengers was also frightening. I had to spend the night in Chicago. I will be surprised to learn that there was no advanced warning of the turbulent conditions once the investigation concludes.

That “6,000 foot drop” was a smooth and completely normal 1,200FPM decent from 37,000ft to 31,000ft as their initial decent toward Bangkok. It was completely unrelated to the turbulence and was planned.

KEEP your Seatbelt ON even if the seatbelt light is OFF!

That expert is not quite an expert. He says the 777 is a carbon fiber aircraft. It is NOT. Also, it's a 30 year old design.... great aircraft that I designed many systems for, but it is NOT state of the art... it was... but isn't. And he talked about "infrared radar".... no such thing.... the first R in radar stands for Radio. Did he mean LIDAR maybe?

Far too many people walk around, insist on going to the toilets & not wearing seat belts, even when the seat belts signs are ON! Crazy.

Does not the crew tell you to wear your seat belts at all times when seated? Now you know why.

Kudos to the pilot he managed to make emergency landing safely and saves 200+ lives.🙏

I hope this doesn't lead to many changed policies, if given that these types of incidents are extremely rare. Of course, keeping seat belt on while seated, even loosely, is always better than having it unbuckled. B777s are not carbon fiber, btw.

Luggage ia not the issue.. the doors are the point of failure

so the lesson is to wear seatbelt all the time.

Wow, the amount of misinformation in this report is ridiculous. Get your facts right DW!

I have buckled up at all times for the last 40 years since I had my dinner tray at my eye level in a flight.

Seat belts save lives, rest in peace that one passenger

Ever since I saw the episode about Aloha Airlines' roof blowing off on National Geographic channel, I always keep my seat belt on throughout the flight.

That 70 year's old couldn't take it May his soul rest in peace ✌🏽

That must have been terrifying to drop 6000 ft in altitude. Condolences to the deceased loved ones and passengers aboard this flight!

Secondly... this is not a Boeing issue... this is a flight issue.... any plane in this environment... would of had the same issues....

The old bloke is talking from his a*s! A passenger is not allowed to carries a hand luggage or whatever during an emergency exit on the chute, so his justification that no luggage should be carry on board is BS.

Not wearing your seat belt seems like riding a motorcycle without a helmet, dumb. How hard is it? Especially experienced flyers at least your head wouldn’t hit the ceiling.

Even a loosely fastened seat belt protects you from hitting the overhead, also stow cabin baggage either in locker or under seat when you are not accessing it. Personally I only use a small soft carry on bag for this very reason

Turbulence??? 5 minutes??? it seems like the nose of the plane taking over...

Confucius say: He who is in airplane bathroom during extreme turbulence is going to Bangkok.

I dont believe the average person has any idea of flight and impacts on aircraft from weather conditions or air turbulence during flight. This is exactly why seat belts are to be worn all the time whist seated. My condolences to the family of the deceased. People need to follow rules whilst seated, its not hard to understand.

Protect your Boeing whistleblower this time.

Like 50 people out of 210 did not have seatbelt, that's like 25%, thats crazy, how can you make such a flight without seatbelt on the whole time?

My condolences. That is terrific turbulence. Let this be a PSA to all of the travelling public.

Dear DW. You should be able to find a better "expert".

Passengers were NOT "launched into the air" @7:15 - being unattached to the aircraft by seat belts, when the aircraft dropped out from under them the unattached passengers obeyed Newton's First Law and kept moving at the same speed and direction as before the aircraft dropped until the dropping aircraft smashed its ceiling into their heads, changing their direction of motion to once again match that of the aircraft.

For ever action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Keep your seatbelts on unless you’re going to the bathroom or disembarking.

According to witnesses on the SQ flight, the passengers who went to the restroom were the ones most hurt during the turbulence. I had a few bad experiences myself during travel while I was in the restroom when the aircraft hit turbulence. There are signs in the toilet asking you to return to your seats.

I’m sure the Pilots were scared themselves. They should be praised for the safety landing

No the jet was pushed down by by the air faster than you could fall! That is why people appeared to float into the roof. Seat belts have been used for decades this is not related to climate!

…because climate??

Seatbelts should always be be fastened, for the whole duration of the flight.

Imagine Boeing 777, such a huge aircraft got hit, that was deadly

You should be belted in at all times unless you are getting up for the toilet etc. You can even wear it somewhat loosely but still secure. You'll get a good jerk but you won't hit your head on the ceiling.

When I flew back in the 70’s all we carried on board was a small briefcase with some books

The question will be if this happen, are you will be allowed to use the restroom facilities in the future

Sadly, turbulence can be deadly

I do admit to be the type of passengers that will unbuckle when the seatbelt sign is off or when meals are served. However I have never complained if the seatbelt sign remains on for what I perceive as "a very long time". This unfortunate accident obviously will make me be a lot more cautious next time.

I once took off in a plane in New Zealand (in the summer of 2001) where the Italian contingent in our tour group was so caught-up in a group conversation that they refused to sit down for take-off. Since it was a small plane (like 100 seats) carrying only our tour group and the Italians would not take their sits, the plane took off with them standing up. Kid you not. I was there.

Which airlines?

Every pilot knows Bay of Bengal very severe turbulence no passengers were allowed to move or walk around . The pilots did not give the warnings and the cabin crews served breakfast passing this area. Imagine the food trolleys flew up and hit those passengers. For frequent flyers passing thru this area pilots will inform to seat and buckled up

my question is, the fight has all data related to the weather conditions. is that not possible to get notification before we face the turbulance, and based on that the pilot might take the decison

What occured to me is that I haven't seen videos from inside the flight as it happened. I suppose the turbulence occured in an instant that no one was able to hit record. Or something is missing?

It’s rare to fly out of your seat due to turbulence, but it’s still a wise idea and I keep my seatbelt on even if the sign is not on for it.

Does it really matter for what brand of jetliner ?

There will be a lot of concussions and some serious head injuries.

Seatbelts are there for a reason, they do say wear them while seated although not mandatory (yet), it's tough if you are going to toilet or returning. Gaz UK

What will happen if you are in restroom in this case? Can you hold on something to be safe?

What happened to the guy in restroom?

This is why I am that guy that will remind you to keep your seat belt on. The complete ignorance some people have on planes, be less selfish and this could have been less of a disaster.

Reminds of the 'Key and Peele turbulence' skit.

That was why some passengers escape without any injury While 30+1 was injured Few of them seriously injured

People get up even with the seatbelt light on. Flight Attendants don’t bother trying to get them back in the seats. But even with the seatbelt light you have keep the seatbelt on even when seated.

STOP !!! with the misinformation about 6000 feet. That was a normal descent to land. The turbulence lasted about 7 seconds and the plane went up 100 feet and then down 300 feet suddenly ; that's why people who did not wear seatbelt hit their heads. 2000 FEET PER MINUTE IS A NORMAL DESCENT RATE FOR LANDING

The media nowadays: "hard landing" = crash "turbulence" - Nose dive

“some of other poor people were doing the somersaults” idk why it made me chuckles. i dont think its the appropriate expressions but ok 😂

6000ft? In meters?

It sounds to me like what you're trying to say is that in the future, we won't be allowed to take our seatbelts off on the plane..

Were there carry-on bags that caused injuries?

Who records weather? Or what records weather? Cuz i cant imagine someone sitting just recording the sky atmosphere... and to be able to see something thats invisible amazing...

Approximate time line from director of aerial radio control of Thailand 2.49 p,m, (GMT+7) the plane faced the incident (drop from the turbulence) around Irrawaddi area of Myanmar Pilots made contact to Myanma radio control 10 minutes later, Myanma radio control made contact to Thai radio control and told the pilots wanna have emergency landing at Bangkok due to medical emergency, 3,05 p.m. Thai radio control navugated the landing and told other flights to hold, 3.52 p.m, the plane landed and revacuation operation was started.

I flew AA once and that pilot hit every damn bump in the sky from Texas to Georgia!

Yes, but sometimes one or two do that with or without turbulence. 😮

NO, they weren't launched toward the ceiling as the title of the clickbait thumbnail describes. The producer got the physics all wrong. The plane suddenly & very quickly lost altitude and unattached items were quickly "left behind". TD

The guy said quote " some poor ppl walking around ended up doing somersault " lol ... i mean what does he mean by poor ppl? Thats bizarre

777 has advanced weather Radar the plane automatically when it enters a turbulence location and possibly the pilot and copilot fall asleep, so it is unable to avoid turbulence location

How can you be in a plane plummeting to the ground and potentially dying and still think about taking video footage on your phone. Strange world we live in today.

The Boeing 777-300ER actually has some carbon fibre applications to it, like in the tailplane and other few strategic parts, but not largely as the 787. So, there is some truth in what the expert is saying, folks.

they always remind passengers to put the seatbelts tied at all time...but some just want to stand---or roam around...and this happen---

Great headline. Making it sound like the plane didn't have seatbelts 👍

That’s why seatbelts are super important to fasten. People 🙄

Definitely not Boeing fault seatbelts would’ve saved so many only one would’ve been hurt from that falling piece

Seat belt is not the prob. Thats the mechanism to mitigate damage cause by this kind of case. And without previous warning, some people must be stay upward. Like cabin crew and people going to restroom. It might be another bumble from the Boeing.

Frankly, for quite some time now, I check the flights if it is an Airbus or Boeing and try to totally avoid Boeing, I have stopped trusting it after so many recent never-ending controversies. Besides, I always keep my seatbelt on, only slightly loosen it a bit when the seatbelt sign is off.

This is so Scary... I am so glad am not afraid of flying !!! Have the seat belt on while seated at all times in an airplane ..

Yeah, keep your seat belt on. Just poop on the blanket, but keep your seat belt on and enjoy the smell. Especially on a 13-hour flight.

My violin in the hull? I would rather hitchhike to my destination!

There's a reason why they tell you to keep your seatbelt on. Fly Airbus if you can, otherwise just listen to the staff.

Do they put cushioning on the ceiling? Would that even help?

So, in Europe, where everything is metric, we still use feet for aviation?

Why does that only happen to other people? My flights are always boring.

Those not wearing belts got run into by a 777

Could passengers on board airlines have the manners to stop talking loud among themselves so other passengers can hear the messages made by airline crews as the messages could be very important .

Where does this guy get the idea that overhead luggage caused injuries or otherwise presents any risk? Did they empty out in this turbulence event? I did not see images of this at all. Is he just a curmudgeon whining about carry on because it slows loading and unloading a little bit?

No tourism, Singapore economy will TOTALLY COLLPASE! Oh that is what open economy means

Flying First Class in a private suite is not as much fun, when belted down. I will take my chances! .

Those belts have their purpose and they were just punished.