Here is an interview with a passenger who was luckily not injured severely, but attempted to help the passenger who did not survive:
It's not clear exactly what caused that passenger to have a heart attack, as is widely believed -- certainly the in-flight upset event, but from the witness' description it does not seem that he was standing in a queue for the lavatories (as many have speculated).
Moreover, it is really something to hear that all the SQ crew members were injured or otherwise hurt --- and yet they were all still working, still trying to care for the passengers. Now that's heroic and I do not use the term lightly.
That is reinforced by this other passenger's account:
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...nce-hit-flight
He commended crew members for tending to passengers, even though most of them were bleeding or limping.
One stewardess was “holding her neck with blood oozing out, but she was still going around and helping people get medication”, he said.
“They need some medals because they were the heroes. 100 per cent,” he added.
Moreover it seems that the uninjured passengers on the relief flight were all given $1,000 compensation.
The man, who was one of the 131 SQ321 passengers and 12 crew members
who arrived in Singapore via a relief flight at 5.05am on May 22, also shared with ST that an SIA staff member offered monetary compensation to those on board the flight before it departed Bangkok.
The passenger said he received $1,000 in cash inside a white SIA envelope.
“(The staff member) said that the money was like… an apology,” he said.
When contacted, SIA said it declined to comment on matters of compensation.