Woman texts husband to tell family "I love you" as plane nosedives
<p>As her flight home from holiday plummeted towards the ocean, Nickola Tye reached for her phone. </p>
<p>Moments earlier, a screeching alarm had sounded and the captain of the Jet2 plane told passengers to "prepare for an emergency descent", <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4066912/jet-2-flight-plane-plunges-sea-ibzia-holiday-uk-video/" target="_blank">The Sun</a></strong></em></span> reported. </p>
<p>Tye said "all hell broke loose" as the plane – en route from Ibiza to Leeds, England – nosedived and passengers put on the oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling. </p>
<p>"Because we were getting lower I was able to write a text to my husband. I said, 'The plane is dropping and the oxygen masks have dropped down. If anything happens, I love you'."</p>
<p>The 39-year-old mum from Sheffield thought it was her last chance to tell her family how she felt about them. </p>
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<p>"I didn't have my two young children or husband with me and all I could think was I'm not going to see them again," she said. </p>
<p>The plane – carrying about 180 people – levelled out and was diverted to Barcelona airport, where Tye said the full force of what had happened hit home. </p>
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<p>"That's when people stated crying. There was a woman at the front who could not be consoled."</p>
<p>Fellow passenger John Hatfield said he and his girlfriend panicked when their oxygen masks failed to drop down.</p>
<p>"Everyone's masks came down apart from the one on our row," the 33-year-old said. </p>
<p>"My girlfriend was really upset and crying."</p>
<p>The couple called for help but the flight crew had already sat down and put their own masks on, he added. </p>
<p>"Eventually we managed to get the masks on but it was quite terrifying."</p>
<p>Tom Miller, another passenger aboard the plane, which was about 30 minutes into the flight when the incident occurred, said he sent a message to his wife saying, "I love you babe," as the plane dropped. </p>
<p>After four hours in Barcelona, passengers were flown to Leeds on a replacement aircraft, but many were too afraid to board. </p>
<p>Jet2, a low-cost British airline, attributed the incident, which occurred on July 16, to a "minor technical issue".</p>
<p><em>First appeared on <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/" target="_blank">Stuff.co.nz.</a></strong></span> Image credit: Nickola Tye via Facebook. <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></strong></em></p>
