The flight to Sydney from Vancouver, British Columbia, was forced to make an emergency landing in Hawaii on Thursday after severe turbulence that jolted passengers out of their seats and around the plane.
Emergency workers assist passengers of Air Canada AC 33 flight, which diverted to Hawaii after turbulence, at Honolulu airport, Hawaii.
Honolulu Emergency Services Department spokeswoman Shayne Enright said injuries included cuts, bumps, bruises, neck pain and back pain.
"It just seemed that the plane just sank and then flew up", said passenger Sharon Thornton.
Air Canada was arranging hotels and food for passengers in Honolulu and looking at resuming the flight, the statement said.
It was not immediately clear whether the Air Canada 777-200 aircraft, which had 269 passengers and 15 crew members on board, sustained any damage.
It's key to follow crew's orders and wear a seatbelt when turbulence hits as the majority of injuries are caused by people who fall or are thrown about because they weren't strapped in properly.
A woman behind her hit the ceiling so hard that she broke the casing of an oxygen mask, said Beam, of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Alex Macdonald, a passenger from Australia on board the plane, told CBC News the passengers were "extremely shocked".
Woodhouse credits the crew and passengers with springing into action in the wake of the drop.
"We just hit turbulence pretty quick", passenger Michael Bailey said, according to CNN.
Panic aside, as far as impromptu layovers go, she conceded the tropical island is not a bad destination.
There were almost 270 passengers and 15 crew members on board in total. "Must've dropped about 100 feet or something because we all went up to the ceiling like throughout the plane".
In June, a severe case of turbulence on a flight from Kosovo to Switzerland was captured on video.
Of the roughly three dozen injured, 30 were transported to area hospitals after medical staff met the aircraft as it landed at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.
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