Bangkok: As many as twenty of the passengers on the Singapore Airlines caught in extreme turbulence days ago are in intensive care in a Thai hospital, news agency AFP reported.
Many on the flight SQ321 that made an emergency landing on Tuesday suffered skull, brain and spinal injuries, outlet reported citing Adinun Kittiratanapaibool, director of Bangkok's Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital.
The Boeing 777-300ER faced "sudden extreme turbulence" over Myanmar launching passengers to ceiling, and throwing them around.
In the chaos that followed a 73-year-old British man died and 104 of the 211 passengers, flying from London to Singapore, were injured.
Adinun Kittiratanapaibool said six people are getting treatment for skull and brain injuries, 22 for spinal injuries, and 13 for bone, muscle and other injuries.
"We have never treated people with these kinds of injuries caused by turbulence," he was quoted as saying.
One passenger reportedly said that during the drama that unfolded at 11,300 metres (37,000 feet) passengers were thrown around making dents in the ceiling.
More accounts of the passengers on the flight are emerging with a British passenger, Josh Silverstone, saying: "I fell onto the floor, I didn't realise what happened. I must have hit my head somewhere. Everyone was screaming on the plane. People were scared."
The 24-year-old Silverstone was on his way to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali.
Goh Choon Phong, Singapore Airlines chief executive, apologised for the "traumatic experience".