Passenger dies after severe turbulence on long haul flight
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Seven people were seriously injured during the incident on Singapore Airlines flight from London. Also: Sixteen of the world’s largest AI firms have agreed on new safety guidelines, and schools are closed in northern India as the authorities deal with an intense heatwave.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Wednesday the 22nd of May |
| 0:09.6 | these are our main stories. A passenger has died and dozens have been injured after a plane |
| 0:14.6 | flying from London encountered severe turbulence. Ukraine has expressed gratitude |
| 0:19.7 | to the EU for sending its profits generated from C's Russian Central Bank assets, but says the assets |
| 0:25.6 | themselves should be used for Kyiv's war effort. |
| 0:29.2 | Lawyers for Donald Trump have rested their case in the fraud trial of the former US president. |
| 0:36.3 | Also in this podcast, 16 of the world's largest AI firms have agreed on news safety guidelines |
| 0:41.8 | at the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit and |
| 0:45.1 | we found that around periods of artillery fire or intense shelling our birds |
| 0:50.3 | deviated from their normal routes causing them to change direction and fly further than they normally would on migration. |
| 0:56.1 | How the war in Ukraine is affecting migrating birds. |
| 1:02.3 | One man has died and 30 people had been injured after a Singapore bound flight |
| 1:06.5 | from London was rocked by severe turbulence while cabin crew were serving |
| 1:11.0 | breakfast. The Singapore Airlines plane made an |
| 1:13.9 | emergency landing in Bangkok and some of those on board have been describing it as |
| 1:17.9 | the worst day of their lives. Andrew Davis was there. |
| 1:21.0 | Literally I think as soon as I put it on, just a sudden, sudden thud and the aircraft dropping. |
| 1:28.7 | The thing that really stays in my mind is just seeing possessions and cushions and plates just flying up but when it stopped |
| 1:37.4 | everybody was very shaken it sounds crazy to say it now but I did go through my mind is this |
| 1:42.0 | fatal you know is this fatal? |
| 1:42.6 | You know, is this going down? |
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