Harrowing accounts have emerged from passengers aboard the Alaska Airlines plane that lost its door plug mid-flight – including a woman who sent what she thought could be her final message to her parents, reading: “Please pray for me. I don’t want to die.”
Emma Vu was asleep in seat 18B aboard Flight 1282 when the Boeing 737-9 MAX with 171 passengers and six crew suddenly dropped after a chunk of its fuselage blew off at about 16,000 feet and left a gaping hole.
“The masks r down. I am so scared right now,” Vu wrote to her parents in texts she posted in a TikTok video, where she is seen wearing an oxygen mask during the ordeal Friday on the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California.
“Please pray for me. Please i dont want to die,” she wrote.
Vu told CNN it was “very scary” and “very surreal.”
“I woke up to the plane just falling and I knew it was not just normal turbulence because the masks came down, and that’s when the panic definitely started to set it,” she recalled.
“You just think it’s never going to happen to you — and then it literally did happen to me.”
She said she wanted to thank the passengers near her and a flight attendant for trying to keep her calm.
“I am so grateful for the two ladies who sat to either side of me,” Vu told the news outlet. “They were rubbing my back, giving me comfort.”
In another post, Vu further described how the harrowing events unfolded.
“I fell asleep and then we’re probably 20 minutes into the air and I feel the entire plane drop and the masks drop and people are screaming in a moment of vulnerability,” she says.
Vu said the flight attendants were handing out oxygen tanks to passengers who needed them.
Source: OccupyGh.com
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