Terrifying turbulence videos shared by airline passengers
Fasten your seat belt because you’re about to have a bumpy ride.
TikTokers have shared clips of their scariest plane journeys, where turbulence caused a wave of chaos among passengers.
Some of the roughest flight videos see food and drink flying through the plane, with aisles and footwells littered with debris.
Monica Raygada filmed one such scene on a flight from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany, on Lufthansa and said she “almost died” from a storm of violent air currents.
LEFT: Monica Raygada said she feared for her life on a flight from Texas to Germany. RIGHT: @darkhorsetok uploaded a video of the same flight, with debris everywhere
LEFT: A TikTok uploaded by @iamamlik captures people screaming as a passenger shouts ‘we’re going down!’ RIGHT: Peter Yan’s turbulent experience in Emirates first class
This clip shared by @skytleea shows people clinging to the seats in front of them as they experience severe turbulence
As she reveals the trail of destruction left by the turbulence with tossed meal trays and pieces of crockery, a male passenger is heard to say, “I thought they were losing control of the plane.”
In response, a female flyer says, “I think we had a little crush.”
In a caption, Monica explains the sequence of events: “We were all eating 1.5 hours into the flight and then suddenly we fell down.
“It felt like we were in zero gravity for a while because I watched everything fly in slow motion.
“After the first fall where everything flew and everyone screamed, everything fell to the ground and it seemed like we just kept falling.
Then everyone went silent. Then we all thought: this is it.’
Monica revealed that she began frantically searching for her phone that had fallen to the ground during the bumpy ride, as she wanted to text her family “goodbye.”
After about 15 minutes, she said the crew was finally able to get up and check on the injured.
They were then informed that the plane would land in Washington DC. According to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, seven people were injured during the flight.
A clip uploaded by @traveltmz shows another bad case of turbulence with an overturned drinks cart and debris on the floor
LEFT: @westcoast_aviation uploaded a video showing turbulence on a Frontier flight and the captain can be heard trying to reassure passengers. RIGHT: @livemoretv said his flight from Las Vegas to Columbus was the ‘scariest’ with wind gusts over 50 mph
She concluded, “Thank God most of us had our seatbelts on, because this could have ended much worse.”
TikToker @darkhorsetok uploaded a video from the same flight, showing the contents of a bottle of red wine spilled all over the floor, along with a number of other things from pillows to napkins.
In another TikTok, Melbourne-based photographer Peter Yan reveals how he was hit by turbulence while flying first class on Emirates.
In the caption, he only explains, “It was terrifying.”
The footage shows his private cabin shaking violently, while his glass of white wine sloshes dangerously around.
Peter said in the comments section that the downside of experiencing turbulence in first grade was that he was alone and not with other people for comfort.
A clip uploaded by @traveltmz shows another serious case of turbulence with an overturned drinks trolley and debris on the floor.
The footage was filmed on a Delta flight from Santa Ana, California, to Seattle, Washington, but had to divert to Reno, Nevada because of the turbulence.
LEFT: @nat_chlr’s TikTok video is very blurry because the turbulence makes it impossible to film with a steady hand. RIGHT: An equally chaotic airplane scene was shared by @jsteelo04, featuring an air stewardess flying through the sky
Creator @jazzy63087 said she started recording a video to show her son that she was on a cloud. But ‘that’s when the turbulence started’ and she said she’d ‘never been so scared’
Many commenters took a comical stance after seeing the crooked trolley, with @kirans007 joking ‘was this on Spirit airlines?’, while @capnobly wrote ‘free drinks for everyone’.
Taking the panic up a notch, a chaotic plane scene shared by @jsteelo04 shows an air stewardess flying through the air along with a load of goods from an overhead barge as the plane jerks.
Meanwhile, a TikTok uploaded by @iamamlik captures people screaming as a passenger yells, “We’re going down!” while the plane takes a dive.
Commenting on the clip, @Borchy_j wrote, “Even the slightest turbulence on an airplane fills me with panic…I’m sure if this happened to me I’d have a heart attack.”
But @bbyziza7 bucked the trend, writing: ‘Am I the only one who really likes turbulence?
“Airplanes can be so boring, a little turbulence here and there makes it so exciting.”