It shows the debris and open Overhead Lockers as well as injured passengers being stretchered off the plane, while ambulances waited on the tarmac. One of the Singapore Airlines crew told a passenger it was the worst turbulence shed experienced in her 30 year career. This was the scene on the tarmac with Emergency Services surrounding the plane. The singapore bound aircraft was diverted to bangkok and landed at 3. 16pm in the afternoon local time. It was carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew. Our South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has this report. Ina in a moment, we will speak live with our correspondent live in singapore, but here is our Southeast Asia correspondentJonathan Head with the very latest. Shaken by their terrifying ordeal, the passengers were met by several ambulances as they landed in bangkok. Theyd been eating their breakfast when the boeing airliner plunged without warning. Jerry was travelling with six other Family Members to a wedding in australia. Bit of turb
Good morning. It is a cold start in some parts of the north of the country, temperatures close to freezing. For many, it will cloud over with scattered showers developing and some of those will be heavy and thundery. I will have all the details later in the programme. Its tuesday 21st may. Rishi sunak says the government will pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims of the the Infected Blood Scandal. Details of the scheme are expected to be announced later today. Its been described as the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs. Yesterday a Public Inquiry highlighted a catalogue of failures over many years, which it said had catastrophic consequences. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Cheering and applause. A moment of relief and joy after years of grief, frustration and anger. Sir Brian Langstaff delivers his findings to just some of the thousands of people whose lives have been touched by the Infected Blood Scandal. Outside, some of them reflected
Inside the cabin of flight 50321 from london to singapore, after it hit extreme turbulence in the skies over myanmar. It led to the death of a british passenger in his 70s who had a suspected heart attack and more than 50 other people on the Singapore Airlines flight were injured, seven of them critically. And just look at this graph that shows the altitude of the plane over several hours you can see how the plane plummeted by around 6,000 feet in just a few minutes. Not everyone had a seat belt on, and objects and passengers were hurled around the cabin by the turbulence. The plane then made an Emergency Diversion to bangkok in thailand, from where our South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head joins us. Here at Bangkok Airport they have sent a special flight to pick up those passengers who did not need medical treatment to help but get on to their ultimate destination in singapore but we believe more than 70 people needed to be treated in hospital here in thailand. Some of those wer
Forjustice have been heard. In a moment of unity, the Opposition Benches agreed. And i repeat our commitment to work on a cross party basis to help deliver the Compensation Scheme and get the money, the final money to victims, as soon as possible. So who will get compensation . Therell be payments to those infected or their estate if theyve died, also to those affected partners, family and friends looking after a loved one. Payments will be exempt from tax and not means tested. The final payment will be made by the end of the year. Therell be interim payouts of 210,000 within 90 days to those infected. This follows a first interim payment in 2022. Itll be run by a new body led by sir Robert Francis, whos already drawn up Compensation Plans for the inquiry. So what did the treloar students think . Very pleased to hear that sir Robert Francis will be chairing it, looking across this for us, because, as they say, his report was everything we could have wanted and more. The devils in the d
Her debut as moderator of Meet The Press sits down with donald trump. Well play for you what he said when asked if he told a staffer to delete camera footage. Later, Hundreds Of Thousands of immigrants brought here as children could be in limbo now that a judge ruled a program to protect them is unlawful. Well talk to beto orourke about that and more. And remembering the life of renowned artist fernando who has died at 91. In this hour, with our Breaking News overnight, right now nearly 13,000 auto workers are on strike after their union failed to reach a deal on a new contract late last night. This is a live look at striking workers at g ms plant in missouri. Strikes are taking place at three different plants. But the uaw union says there is potential for more if a deal is not reached. Some demands includes a 40 hourly pay increase. Reduced weekly hours and Pension Reform among other issues. One of the auto makers made a statement saying we are extremely disappointed by the uaw leader