15 injured as passengers panic in emergency landing

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport, leaving 15 people in hospital.

Passengers suffered a range of injuries, including suspected fractures and cuts, as they escaped Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 using the emergency chutes.

Passenger Tom Aldridge said: “The people panicking as they were jumping off were throwing themselves out of the plane down the chute, and there was a big pile of bodies at the bottom where people were just landing on top of each other and there were quite a few injuries.”