flight<\/a> turned around and descended to an altitude of 10,000ft.<\/p>\n![\"Ryanair](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_G9RHX5iXIAAWYvFjpeg.jpg\")
Ryanair flight officials issued an emergency signal (squawk 7700) over Brittany, France, after reaching an altitude of 35,000ft(Image: X)<\/p>\n
The woman, from Lichfield, Staffordshire, said: “I was on this flight. It felt like something you see on a horror movie. We were smooth cruising then, out of nowhere all of a sudden, the plane jerked to the left extremely quickly and then to the right.<\/p>\n
“It felt like a loss of control, and then we plummeted down and we were flung out of our seats. I came out physically unharmed but the mental toll this has taken is awful.<\/p>\n
“Other passengers said to me they saw a fighter jet pass us by just before it happened. How do you not pick up on a planes radar other planes in the area? It doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
“Who knows – I would like real answers though, this has really traumatised me. The cabin crew said within their 10 years as cabin crew they’ve never experienced anything like it.”<\/p>\n
The plane safely touched down in Birmingham around one hour and 32 minutes after departure. According to AirLive, it was stationed at a remote stand within the airport for paramedics to attend to passengers.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Ryanair said: “FR1121 from Birmingham to Tenerife on 28th December returned to Birmingham Airport shortly after take-off due to air turbulence.”The aircraft landed normally before passengers disembarked and returned to the terminal, where a small number of passengers were provided with medical assistance. This flight continued to Tenerife at 21:06 local.”<\/p>\n
A Birmingham Airport spokesperson said: \u201cWe were made aware of the aircraft returning to BHX and initiated the normal operating procedures to support Ryanair.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One passenger claimed cabin crew had told her they had ‘never experienced anything like it’ Husna Anjum Senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,1899,2846,6715,2738],"class_list":["post-216535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ryanair","tag-spain","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Ryanair flight returned to its departure airport in the UK after around 90 minutes (stock image)(Image: Nicholas.T.Ansell\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n