00:00Avon, coroner's course, heard Mr Kitchen was seated next to his wife, Linda, when the Boeing 777, which was flying
00:07from London's Heathrow Airport, encountered severe turbulence while approaching the southwestern region of Myanmar.
00:15The plane was diverted to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, where Mr Kitchen was pronounced dead.
00:22His wife, who sustained serious injuries, was taken to hospital with dozens of other passengers. Dr Peter Harrowing, the assistant
00:30coroner for Avon, reached a narrative conclusion following the hearing into Mr Kitchen's death on Wednesday, which said he died
00:39of cardiac failure as a result of the aircraft he was a passenger on encountering severe turbulence.
00:46Mr Kitchen, a retired insurance professional, and his wife, a retired careers advisor, had left Heathrow Airport for a six
00:55-week holiday to Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.
00:59In a statement read to the inquest, Mrs Kitchen, who is 74, described how she had been sitting in her
01:06assigned seat and wearing her seatbelt when the incident happened.
01:10She said her husband had been listening to a podcast when she began to feel turbulence before a huge drop
01:18or lunge, and she experienced incredible pain as her now unconscious husband fell onto her.
01:25Mrs Kitchen was not informed of her husband's death until two days later.
