A
U.S. bound-American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in
Tokyo on Wednesday after hitting severe turbulence created by a strong winter
storm, with several people taken to hospital for minor injuries.
American
Airlines Flight 280, a Boeing 777-200 heading to Dallas/Fort Worth airport from
Incheon in South Korea, was flying across Japan when the plane dropped suddenly
and was rocked for 30 to 40 seconds, passengers said.
"We
were eating and all the food just flew up in the air and pretty much bounced
off and fell. There were carts all over the place," one passenger told TV
Tokyo when the aircraft landed shortly after midnight at Tokyo's Narita
airport.
Photos
posted on Twitter showed splotches of
