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Long haul flights are different but not by much. A bit of a walk around to get the circulation going, getting up to order a drink is my preference, then sit down, belt-up and booze on.

A heart attack is different to cardiac arrest. A heart attack is a myocardial infarction which is caused by a blockage to the heart so oxygenated blood can't get to the heart and a cardiac arrest is more of an electronic failing leading to the heart muscles failing to beat properly or stop beating altogether.

How do you go to the toilet? Walking around is recommended to avoid deep vein thrombosis especially on long haul flight. It's obviously not pratical to stay belted up all the time. When seated certainly though.

Maybe time to stop posting. If this is an effort at humour it's not a good one. If it isn't then maybe you shouldn't start .......... so early in the day.

Nothing will ever happen as long as the 200+ billion baht budget gets syphoned off into pockets all the way down the line to directors and sub-directors. Of course there are other issues. Too many students per class, not enough teachers, complete lack of effective discipline, anachronistic cultural norms, lack of or complete absence of technology, teacher attitudes, student attitudes, way too much useless paperwork for teachers to do, too many stupid out of class activities etc, etc, etc. Not a bad article and interestingly attributed to Thai PBS. I wonder if TheThaigerChatGPT/AN have had their hands slapped for direct, unattributed lifts from other sites?

Thaksin Advised Against Exerting Excess Behind-The-Scenes Power Shinawatra has been cautioned to limit his political influence from behind the scenes So as long as he limits it to somewhere less than excessive it's ok then? Cabinet reshuffle? Less than excessive? It would seem so. Absurd.

Yep. Meals on long haul flights do not always align with what some consider to be a particular time or there abouts for a particular meal. SQ321 departed Heathrow at 22.10 GMT. Plane landed BKK 08:45GMT/15:45 Thai time. Meal served was breakfast. Breakfast: Break the fast. The flight would have had a dinner meal sometime after takeoff after reaching cruising altitude and speed. For most people this will be very easy to understand.

"Chuck a hearty" is @Ralf001 showing his complete lack of empathy and compassion for someone who appears to have died from a myocardial infarction aka heart attack brought on by the mid-air incident.

The flight was heading to Singapore so more than two hours. BKK as correctly stated in the article (they got this right) was the emergency landing airport.

I'm sorry you're upset and have to lash out calling me an idiot. Sadly it would seem you didn't read or didn't understand the definition of clear air turbulence posted above. Pilots fly above, around and between storms. You know where there air is clear and where clear air turbulence can be encountered. It's not a difficult concept to understand. I've copied this from @Georgealbert (cheers hope you don't mind) and it clearly shows an area which is ..... well ....clear!

Not "nobody" wearing seatbelts. Those buckled up would have been basically unaffected (scared shtless for sure) but those not buckled up would have been airborne.

If it keeps up every or almost every day then I agree but will this once again be the false start to the wet. May is often this way then the rain basically stops for a month of more with hot humid days and occasional storms until it finally breaks into the real wet season.

Rediculous comment and clearly shows your lack of knowledge about turbulence and doppler radar. It is absolutely evident that this particular patch of turbulence was very much unexpected. It happens.

From what I've read yes so please stop you're puerile baiting attemps. Being that you obviously have no idea what clear air turbulence is here's a definition. Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) is defined as sudden severe turbulence occurring in cloudless regions that causes violent buffeting of aircraft. This term is commonly applied to higher altitude turbulence associated with wind shear. The most comprehensive definition is high-altitude turbulence encountered outside of convective clouds. This includes turbulence in cirrus clouds, within and in the vicinity of standing lenticular clouds and, in some cases, in clear air in the vicinity of thunderstorms. Generally, though, CAT definitions exclude turbulence caused by thunderstorms, low-altitude temperature inversions, thermals, strong surface winds, or local terrain features [source: FAA AC 00-30C]. https://skybrary.aero/articles/clear-air-turbulence-cat

Mumbai is Bombay but thanks, made me look up the new names. As for telling me where I landed that's just incredibly arogant. I think I know where I landed thank you very much and it wasn't Mumbai previously Bombay as I sateted. My mistake. It was Chenai previously Madras and it was a DC 10. Indeed it was a Malaysian Airlines DC 10.

True but it would seem that it was too late. Pretty hard to buckle up when your flying into the overhead luggage compartments or the roof of the cabin or the roof of the toilet.

Not all turbulence will be detected. This would seem to be the case here.

They are medical emergency responders so I guess they were responding to a medical emergency. If you think they only exist for road crashes (admittedly probably a large % of their of their responses) then you are very mistaken.

From the 2nd quote it would seem (maybe) the seatbelt sign came on only when it was too late. Clear air turbulence can go undetected until you hit it it.

'All of a sudden I was hitting the roof' Thanyarat Doksone Reporting from Bangkok A British man who was traveling with his family on the flight tells me how the turbulence began. “It was probably 10 hours in the flight, so there were people walking around. And there was no sign to put the seat belts on," he says. "There was no turbulence prior to that. It went from no turbulence to this one turbulence. No plane shaking at all and then I was hitting the roof. All of a sudden, I was up like that.

You either do not live in Thailand or you are very unobservant and have never heard of the Poh Teck Tung Foundation and other volunteer organisations. I think these units are from the Sawang Boriboon Foundation but I might be wrong. As for the "AOT nurse shirt" the vid you are refering to is not an AOT employee that I'm fairly certain is a Pok Teck Tung Foundation responder.

What's this god you speak of? Is this some sort of turbulence? Maybe the name of the pilot?

Gets the old sphincter going doesn't it. I had two fly arounds on a DC 10 landing in Mumbai, India on the edge of a cyclone. 1st time in we broke through the low cloud at a very, very disturbing angle of approach. 2nd time wind sheer. 3rd time lucky but it was a bit of a hard landing. Cabin crew looked terrified. I had a very quick word with the co-pilot when disembarking. I asked him if we were lucky. His answer was yes. He looked shaken as did the crew and the passengers. Never forget that one that's for sure.

I understand your trying to be facetious because that's what you do but on a 777-300ER there are 9 toilets. If each is occupied and there are other people waiting it can be quite a few. Of course then you have people walking to and from toilets and others who are simply not buckled up. Added to this you have the cabin crew. Due to the large number of injuries and one or more fatalities I would assume that this turbulence was not detected by the onboard equipment, no turbulence warnings given by the pilot and the buckle-up signs were not on.

Impossible on long haul flights to stay buckled up as a trip to the toilet is necessary. It's one of the usual places that people get injured with severe turbulance.