Thank God you're OK physically. I can only imagine the
the trauma.
I mean, it's a terrifying incident.
Can you describe to me exactly what happened?
You know you're you're flying along.
I think in your case you dozed off and then
what?
Yeah. Thank you.
It was it was it was like a scene out
of a movie when actually you're actually in the movie.
I had dozed off and luckily had my seat belt
engaged.
And
the next thing you know the the,
the the plane, as I've kind of
kind of learned to understand,
dropped something to the effect of 500 feet instantly
and then had the effect of
it coming like a roller coaster and then started to
point down
and that's when it. And I opened my eyes and
there was
various individuals at the top of the plane
just stuck to the roof and then they fell to
the floor.
And then I just realized I'm not in a movie.
This is actually for real and not dreaming.
This is for real. So when you at 1st when
you're you're dreaming and it feels like a a nosedive,
there's a moment where you think maybe it is a
dream
but you wake up to see someone hitting the ceiling.
Yeah. And they they might.
The guy looked next to me and the guy was
out of his seat and on the on the ceiling
of the plane.
And then he felt and hurt himself pretty bad.
And then people were screaming and crying and
yeah, it was, it was,
it was mass chaos for a few few
few short seconds and did,
did there.
There was a moment in your head where you thought,
Oh my God, now this is it,
I'm going to die.
Yeah. There was clearly a moment in my head.
And then I just kind of resigned to the fact
that this could be it,
you know, this, this might be it.
And
and then the the the announcement came on take your
seats please anyone you know they'll be we'll be sending
help as quickly as possible.
There's some any doctors on board and a few doctors
stepped up into the plate and started to to give
assistance and and mend some people up that were bleeding
and and had various kind of injuries putting some neck
braces on people.
It was it was touch and go.
So the pilot after this happens comes back to to
check on everybody after the incident comes over to where
you are.
Brian. How did he look?
He was, I think he was in shock,
just I think he felt that he wanted to see
what what people were going through.
He walked to the back and I immediately engaged with
him and said you know what was that?
And he openly admitted, he said I lost control of
the plane.
My gauges just kind of
went blank on me. And that's when the plane just
took a dive.
So literally, he says the gauges went blank.
Yeah. He said they they malfunctioned
and and and and did he,
did he say that made it so he didn't have
the ability then to even control it,
to fly it? He said,
he said for that brief moment he couldn't control anything.
And that's when the, you know,
the plane just did what it did.
And then he said the gauge just came back and
then re engaged and the plane just re engaged to
its
normal flight pattern.
And we had no issues before,
no issues after. But just that moment,
I
mean that's quite, quite that is terrifying.
Can I ask you what it was like
after this happened and the plane flies again and obviously
the pilots are in the front and and you're all
back there.
Was it silent? What were those last 45 minutes
left? There was, there was 25 minutes of eerily silence
from the ones that were OK.
And then a lot of you could hear people sobbing
and a lot of people kind of
in pain with, you know,
kind of, yeah, just kind of
hunched over and and people shaking like they were,
their hands were shaking. And it was,
it was bizarre. It was,
I have to say, it was.
And and seeing those people flying around,
it was like seeing out of The Exorcist.
I was like, what is this?
You know It was It was hard to believe
with that to to to see that happen first hand.