WATCH: A passenger on board a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles captured what may be the scariest moment of his life – an announcement from a flight attendant letting passengers know they may be making an emergency landing into the ocean. Randy Paige reports.
They’re the words no airplane passenger wants to hear: the plane they’re on is going to make an emergency landing in the sea.
That terrifying moment happened for more than 270 passengers on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles on July 29 and 25-year-old Ethan Williams captured it all on his cellphone.
“Something’s not right,” Williams says in the video as he pulls out one of his earphones to listen to a crew member tell the travelers about the emergency landing.
“Flight attendants are running around like crazy,” Williams continues.
The airline tweeted that an inspection of the plane showed the reason for the disturbance was due to smoke caused by a malfunctioning cooling fan.
Even so, Williams said to CBS that before everyone was told the plane would in fact continue its journey and make a safe landing, he believed he wouldn’t survive.
“We were preparing for the worse, we were preparing to ditch in the sea.”
Cathay Pacific apologized to the CX884 passengers for the inconvenience and gave them each a cash card worth $300.
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