The Singapore Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence last week dropped 178ft in fewer than five seconds, according to a preliminary investigation using the aircraft’s black box flight recorder.
The “rapid” changes in gravitational force (G) while in the air “likely caused the injuries to the crew and passengers”, according to a chronology of events compiled by the investigations body of Singapore’s ministry of transport, the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Boeing and released on Wednesday.
Singapore’s ministry of transport said in the statement that the investigation by the Transport Safety Investigation Bureau of Singapore was ongoing.