Twenty people are currently in intensive care in Bangkok after violent turbulence on a flight from London to Singapore on Tuesday 21 May

Hospitals in the Thai capital announced on Wednesday that the patients, who had boarded the Singapore Airlines flight, are in intensive care following an emergency landing.

Around a hundred people were injured The patients, from Australia, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines, are in intensive care units at Samitivej Srinakarin and Samitivej Sukhumvit hospitals, according to a spokesman for the hospital group.

Singapore Airlines flight SQ321, with 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, encountered sudden severe turbulence at 11,000 metres above Burma, ten hours after departure. The plane experienced several abrupt ascents and descents.

A 73-year-old British passenger died on board the plane, which was flying from London to Singapore, and 104 other people were injured. On Wednesday, 131 passengers and 12 crew members, the majority of those on board, were able to reach Singapore on another flight.