A 73-year-old man died and more than 80 were injured in severe turbulence during a flight on Tuesday. The following day, 20 people were still in intensive care in Bangkok, according to a hospital in the city.

About a hundred shaken passengers and crew members landed in Singapore on Wednesday after a harrowing journey from London, which ended with an emergency landing in the Thai capital Bangkok. Relieved relatives greeted them with hugs.

Others remain in hospitals in Bangkok. Late Tuesday, more than 70 people were said to be receiving treatment, six of them seriously injured. On Wednesday, two hospitals in the city said 20 people were in intensive care. They come from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, among others.

A Singapore Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet hit sudden and extreme turbulence as it approached Myanmar airspace on Tuesday. Passengers described chaotic scenes on board: objects being thrown around, people screaming in panic, and fellow passengers with bleeding ears and head injuries.

One passenger said they were thrown around the cabin so violently that the ceiling was dented. Photos from inside the plane show food, drink bottles and luggage scattered across the cabin. Oxygen masks dangle from the ceiling.

”"In the seconds the plane was sinking, there was terrible screaming," passenger Andrew Davies told BBC Radio.

Early reports in Thai media claimed that another person from the crashed plane had died in hospital, information that has not been officially confirmed.

According to aviation experts, it is unusual for turbulence to cause such extensive damage as the one on the Singapore Airlines plane. The incident will be investigated by Singaporean authorities.

Source: TT-DI.SE