Stomach-churning video captured passengers aboard a flight to the Spanish island of Majorca screaming as the plane rocked violently during a storm – with the woman who shot it saying she feels “born again” for surviving it.
Estela Orts, 25, who stars as Captain Scarlet in the “Pirates Adventure Show” in Magaluf, was flying back to the island from Alicante, Spain, on Sunday when she captured the wild footage above the Balearics in the Mediterranean.
“It was the first time in my life that it has ever crossed my mind to think ‘this is it,’” Orts said in an Instagram story, according to a translation posted by Newsweek.
“The plane started to fall. People and children screaming, being sick. I couldn’t help crying. I don’t know how long that moment lasted but it felt eternal,” she reportedly said.
“The pilot managed to stabilize the plane — it was like a roller coaster. Nobody said anything over the loudspeaker about what was happening, even when it was stabilized,” Orts added.
The performer later gave a shout-out to the pilot.
“Today I was born again. I hope the pilot of the plane reads this. Thank you, thank you for what you did today. The minutes felt endless, but in the end, it was just a scare,” she said.
Orts told Newsweek she felt “vulnerable.”
“It was a situation that I couldn’t solve, that my life depended on someone else, so I started to tremble and I knew that I was getting a little anxious and I started to cry,” she said.
“The reaction of the other passengers because each one expresses fear in a different way — some screamed, others cried, others vomited, others hugged each other, others laughed and others seemed to even enjoy themselves,” she told the mag.
In the alarming clip, one passenger sitting behind Orts is seen actually flashing an incongruous grin amid the mayhem.
“Two laps around the island and it was impossible to descend. Suddenly we stopped seeing the island and started to climb. The pilot decided that the best option was to return to Alicante,” she told the UK’s Mirror.
The powerful storm hit the popular vacation destination with winds reaching over 75 mph, sending beach chairs flying through the air and tourists racing for cover.
The P&O Cruises ship Britannia broke free from its moorings and collided with a cargo ship near Palma, Majorca’s capital city.
