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Inside Singapore Airlines death plunge plane as police confirm Brit, 73, was killed onboard

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Horrifying footage shows the carnage wrought by turbulence inside the cabin of a Singapore Airlines flight on which a British passenger was killed.

The Boeing 777 plane left Heathrow International Airport in London on Monday evening at 22:17 local time before it was smashed by treacherous weather near Burmese air space.

Flight SQ321 suddenly plunged some 6,000ft before making an emergency landing shortly before 4 pm local time at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Police have confirmed that British pensioner Geoffrey Ralph Kitchen, 73, was killed during turbulence onboard.

The pensioner, from Thornbury, is believed to have been hurled from side-to-side and suffered a heart attack.

Geoffrey, who ran a musical theatre group, has been moved to a police hospital for a post-mortem examination. His wife, who was also injured in the horror turbulence, is being treated at the hospital.

Airport Director Kittipong Kittikachorn confirmed the name and details of the dead man. He was also named in a police report into the incident,

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