‘Some people thought we were going to die’

ONE of the passengers aboard the Ryanair holiday jet forced to make an emergency landing after a loss of cabin pressure has revealed how his fellow passengers feared for their lives.

Arctic explorer Pen Hadow, one of 168 on board the flight, said passengers cried with relief as the plane landed safely at Limoges Airport in France, to where it had been diverted.

“I would say some people thought we were going to die,” said Mr Hadow, who was aboard the flight from Bristol to Girona in Spain with his wife, Mary, son Wilf, 9, and daughter Freya, 6.