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'Dropping very dramatically': What deadly turbulence did to flight SQ321

By Sui-Lee Wee and Muktita Suhartono
New York Times·
6 mins to read

The seat belt sign came on moments after the plane started shaking, but, for some, it was too late.

“Whoever wasn’t buckled down, they were just launched into the air within the cabin,” said Dzafran Azmir, who was among the 211 passengers on board the London-to-Singapore flight that encountered deadly turbulence on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT). “Within an instant, they hit the ceiling of the cabin and dropped right back onto the floor.”

The plane, a Singapore Airlines Boeing

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