Holidaymakers’ emergency landing terror after plane plummets thousands of feet

Families have spoken of their terror as a passenger jet dropped thousands of feet before making an emergency landing. The Jet2 flight was heading to Manchester at 35,000 feet when cabin pressure was lost and passengers said they could smell burning.  Gary Hymanson, from Manchester, said: “I woke up to hear screaming and the captain saying they were making an emergency descent. The oxygen masks dropped down.”  The captain of the Boeing 757, which took off from Tel Aviv in Israel, decided to lose height as quickly as possible to ease the pressure problems. Emergency landing: The Jet2 flight from Tel Aviv to Manchester was diverted to Budapest Oxygen masks dropped down from the…

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