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Singapore Airlines Flight 321

Singapore Airlines Flight 321

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Oct 12, 2026

Unknown podcast

Singapore Airlines SQ Three Twenty-One, the Turbulence Science Still Cannot Reliably Predict, and What the Worst Commercial Turbulence Incident in a Decade Means for Every Pilot

Oct 12 · 7 Mentions

TowerHOST
0:13
It was May 21st, twenty twenty-four.
TowerHOST
0:16
The Boeing seven seventy-seven three hundred ER operating as Singapore Airlines SQ321 was four hours from Changi Airport when the situation changed without warning.
TowerHOST
0:26
What happened next made international headlines and landed dozens of people in Bangkok hospitals.
TowerHOST
0:32
But the real story for pilots is not the incident itself.
TowerHOST
2:19
The first is convective turbulence, the turbulence associated with thunderstorm cells.
TowerHOST
2:24
Cumulonimbus buildups, the kind of weather general aviation pilots are trained to avoid.
TowerHOST
2:30
In the tropics and the SQ321 flight was crossing one of the most convectively active regions on Earth.
TowerHOST
2:36
These storms can be massive.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
6:53
Blue sky, smooth flight, seatbelt sign off, and the aircraft drops.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
6:58
Pilots call it clear air turbulence.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
7:00
It happens where fast-moving air at high altitude rubs against slower air, and there's nothing on the radar because there's no moisture in it.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
7:09
Singapore Airlines flight 321, London to Singapore, 21st of May, 2024.
Ryan GableHOST
71:19
Don't go stand next to the bathroom like the Israelis.
Ryan GableHOST
71:22
When Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 dropped 178 feet in 4.6 seconds and a total of 6,000 feet in three minutes, British passenger Geoff Kitchen, 73, suffered cardiac arrest and died.
Ryan GableHOST
71:35
His wife Linda sustained a head wound and spinal fractures in the incident.
Ryan GableHOST
71:39
Now, I'm laughing here not because it's funny that his wife suffered a spinal fraction, but, a fracture rather, but that a plane can fall a few hundred feet and people are having heart attacks, dying, and having their spines fractured.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:25
But unfortunately for us, that documentary, that, uh, you know, video recovered from the black box of the plane may not have told the full story unfortunately.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:38
This was posted by Henrik Palmgren, Henrik_Palmgren on X. CNN interviewed pilot Aaron Murphy inside of a flight simulator after he punched in the flight radar numbers of what we are told took place in the Flydubai incident, and Murphy is very clear about what he thinks would have happened if those numbers were accurate.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:59
Let's go to clip number nine here, uh, CNN interviewing a pilot, uh, talking about the physical reality of what is even possible for a plane to do.
Harrison SmithHOST
25:10
Let's watch.
Harrison SmithHOST
25:39
I don't think it's re- I don't think it happened.
Harrison SmithHOST
25:41
I don't think it was real.
Harrison SmithHOST
25:43
And I pointed out yesterday that probably about once a year or so, there's some plane that goes through not a attempted hijacking, but just severe turbulence, and you end up with people with concussions and broken legs, and the whole plane i- is basically destroyed on the inside.
Harrison SmithHOST
26:02
And yet, we saw nothing like that during the entire event of the Israeli flight.

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