I've lost my job after turbulence left me with spinal injuries

A PASSENGER on the plane hit by heavy turbulence which left a British grandfather dead has told how life-changing injuries forced him to give up his job.

- Ella Nunn and Jake Meeus-Jones

Telecoms engineer Bradley Richards, 29, suffered six fractures in his spine and neck along with internal bleeding.

He believes he was knocked unconscious on the Singapore Airlines flight and woke with blood pouring from his head.

Bradley said he "immediately felt spinal pain" and had to be lifted into a wheelchair when the plane landed in Bangkok.

Plunged

He described the experience as like "something out of a movie" and his injuries mean he will have to find another line of work when he has recovered.

Bradley, from Benfleet, Essex, was travelling on flight SQ321 from Heathrow to Singapore when it was hit by turbulence last month.