Passengers tell of terror on aircraft
Craig Gourlay, 35, from Lanarkshire, said he and his family struggled to see as thick smoke filled the cabin of a plane which had just landed at Glasgow Airport on 11 October.
The Boeing 757, operated by Thomas Cook from Dalaman in Turkey, was evacuated on the runway.
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Hide AdMr Gourlay said: “The cabin started to fill with thick smoke and we simply could not see how we could get out. It was truly terrifying. An air stewardess was screaming about a ‘fire situation’ so we moved as quickly as we could.”
In a separate incident on 19 October, a Jet2-operated flight was forced to abort its take-off from Glasgow Airport because smoke was detected in the cabin.
Elizabeth Rush, 70, from Lanark, suffered a leg injury in the emergency evacuation of the Alicante-bound Boeing 737.
The retired nurse, who uses a walking stick, said she was looking forward to a break with her husband John, 71.
“The evacuation process was chaos,” she said.