TOKYO, Feb 20: Forty-seven people were injured on Friday when a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 hit turbulence on the Manila-Tokyo leg of a US-bound flight, airport officials said.

Ambulances took the injured to local hospitals after the jet with 408 passengers and 14 crew landed at Narita International Airport outside Tokyo at 12:19pm (0319 GMT), an airport official said.

The flight had been set to continue on to Los Angeles after a stopover.

“The 47 people were taken by ambulance to six hospitals,” said Sayuri Naito, spokeswoman at Narita municipal fire and disaster management headquarters.

Six people were expected to require hospital treatment of up to three weeks while 41 others suffered lighter injuries, she said.—AFP