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Passengers in a Singapore Airlines flight hit by heavy turbulence Tuesday described a sudden, dramatic decline after <x0fer blasting” aboard the Boeing aircraft with 229 passengers and crews.

CNN brings testimony from passenger Andrew Davies, who was traveling to New Zealand for business. He relates that after approximately 13 hours of flying, he was watching a movie when he saw his seat belt sign on, so he put his seat belt on.

Good to put it down, because in a few moments, the terrible surprise” occurred, he told CNN. According to him, many passengers were having breakfast at the time of the event.

“Avian just felt like it fell. It may last just a few seconds, but I clearly remember seeing shoes, iPads, and iPhones, pillows, blankets, dishes, and cups flying into the air and crashing into the ceiling. The gentleman next to me drank a cup of coffee, which went straight over me and up to the ceiling, “said Davies.

The images from the plane later show the cabin, with paper, glasses and cans of water scattered on the floor, and ceiling panels and suspended pipes.

Davies was sitting on the front of the plane and witnessed some of the injuries suffered by dozens of passengers, including the 73-year-old British passenger Geoff Kitchen, who died in flight.

That gentleman was sitting behind me. Many people needed help, but we took care of this gentleman, and I helped him, get him out of the country and lay him on the floor so that some medical professions could manage CPR”.

“There were so many screams and human injuries were visible”, he said further. When he returned, he saw the “a passenger with a large head and blood wound spilled on his face and another elderly passenger in “shaw --”.

Another passenger, 28-year-old student Dzafran Azmir, told Reuters that the plane had begun “to tilt” and tremble.

Very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop, so everyone sat down and without putting the seat belts on the ceiling immediately. Some people hit their heads in the luggage booths above and hit the locations where the lights and masks exploded”.

Azmir added that all this was very fast “. That's why I think no one could really answer. People didn't have time to react. There were passengers in the aircraft baths, and the crew was still standing when it was hit by the” turbulence.

The flight went off in Bangkok after the incident. Of the 211 passengers and 18 crew members aboard the flight, 143 were transported via a relief flight to Singapore.

The remaining 79 passengers and 6 crew members are still in Bangkok, including those receiving medical care and family members. Some passengers had broken their wings, but most of the injuries were cuts and bruises, he added.

The wounded included citizens from Australia, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Spain, the United States and Ireland, according to the hospital where they were treated.

Bangkok airport general manager Kittipong Kittikakhorn said on Tuesday that preliminary investigations show that the British passenger lost his life as a result of a heart attack, but autopisa will determine the cause.

Singapore's Transport Ministry is investigating the incident, saying Tuesday it was in contact with its Thai counterparts and would send investigators to Bangkok. The US National Transport Security Board is also sending personnel to Singapore to assist the investigation, including one board representative and four technical advisers.