A flight to Majorca experienced extreme turbulence on Sunday as it approached the Spanish island that was being battered by a heavy storm, terrifying video has shown.
The mid-air ordeal left passengers fearing for their lives as the plane flew from Alicante in southern Spain to the Balearic Island in the Mediterranean.
Estela Orts, a dancer and acrobat known for her performances in Magaluf’s famous Pirate Show, posted video of the flight on Instagram.
The plane shook and dropped
The footage showed the plane shaking violently as her frightened fellow passengers clung to their seats, with Orts writing that she feared that ‘THIS IS IT’ when the plane shook and dropped – causing people to scream, cry and vomit in what felt like an ‘eternal’ moment.
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Areas of north-east Spain, as well as Majorca, were battered by 75mph winds and torrential rain over the weekend, forcing some families to run for their lives and stranding others on the island as flights were cancelled.
A small number of people were injured during a ‘weather-related incident’ involving P&O Cruises Britannia ship moored in the Spanish island, while on the mainland people had to be rescued from their cars in floodwater.
Port authorities in the capital Palma said the ship collided with a petrol tanker because of high winds.
‘TODAY I WAS BORN AGAIN’
The BBC said it broken free of its moorings in a storm.
Similarly terrifying scenes were unfolding in the air, Orts’s video shows.In a lengthy post to her social media, the acrobat wrote that she was ‘BORN AGAIN’ after the experience on the plane, while also thanking the pilot for navigating what she said were ‘130km/h cross winds’ that prevented them from landing.
‘Now I am calmer… TODAY I WAS BORN AGAIN. I hope the pilot of the plane reads this: THANK YOU, thank you for what you did today, you didn’t have to apologise to us, the minutes felt like forever but in the end it was just a scare. It was the first time in my life that it has ever crossed my mind to think that THIS IS IT,’ she wrote.
