Australian woman who was left paralysed from the chest down when Singapore Airlines flight struck wild turbulence recalls her terror

An Australian woman left paralyzed from the chest down after wild turbulence hit a Singapore Airlines flight has recalled the horror moment she realized she couldn’t move her legs.

Kerry Jordan, 52, and her husband Keith Davis, 59, were returning home from a holiday in Europe when the plane plunged 54 meters in just 4.6 seconds.

The Boeing 777-300ER plane carrying 211 passengers, including 56 Australians and 18 crew, was en route from London to Singapore on May 23 when it entered an air pocket. A 73-year-old British man died of a suspected heart attack.

Speaking from the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), Ms Jordan, who will likely never walk again, said she was trying to put on her seatbelt after a visit to the toilet when turbulence suddenly hit.

“Literally everything started shaking so much… all I remember was being in the air and everything being absolutely silent and then I was on the ground,” she said The advertiser.

Kerry Jordan from Adelaide is paralyzed from the chest down after Singapore Airlines Flight 321 was hit by turbulence. She is pictured in hospital with her husband Keith Davis

Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 (pictured) suddenly plunged 54 meters in just 4.6 seconds after severe turbulence over Myanmar during a flight from London to Singapore

Ms Jordan, a dance teacher at Mitcham Girls High School, said the turbulence was ‘absolutely violent’.

“I think the shock for me too was when it all happened – within ten seconds of me trying to put my seat belt back on,” she recalls.

Mr. Davis was not wearing his seat belt when the plane plummeted. He suffered a shoulder injury and blurred vision.

He didn’t know if his wife was still alive when she fell to the ground.

“She never moved and it was so unnatural, and I was just shocked,” he said.

Another passenger asked Ms. Jordan if she could move her legs, but she couldn’t. She remembers the man then saying she might have a spinal cord injury.

She remained on the ground for the rest of the flight and was taken to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Bangkok after the plane landed.

Ms Jordan was medically evacuated from Bangkok to Adelaide on May 29 and is now in the RAH spinal unit at Daw Park, undergoing months of rehabilitation.

The fracture in her spine is in the C7-T1 segment that connects the neck to the upper back and Ms. Jordan cannot feel “anything from the chest down.”

Although she can move her arms, she cannot use her hands.

She said she can no longer perform basic tasks such as feeding herself while brushing her teeth or using her cell phone.

“I think that’s the hardest part, not being able to feel most of my body,” she said.

Speaking from the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Ms Jordan (pictured) said she had tried to put her seatbelt on after a visit to the toilet when the turbulence suddenly hit

Keith Davis (pictured left), 59, from Adelaide and his wife Kerry Jordan (pictured right) were on their way home from a holiday in Europe when tragedy struck

The couple is now considering their legal options due to the injuries they suffered on the Singapore Airlines flight.

Former politician Nick Xenophon is part of an international legal team working with victims who were on board Singapore Airlines flight SQ321.

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