Millions of us love escaping to foreign shores in search of our dream holiday. Whether we’re jetting off long haul for a week in the blazing sunshine or hopping short haul to Europe for a bit of R&R. When our holiday flights go right, we’ll be flying high. But when they go Horribly Wrong, you’ll need to adopt the brace position!
A flight to Hawaii takes a sinister turn when a passenger looks out of the plane window only to see the engine falling apart before his very eyes. The stuff of nightmares, the helpless passenger finds himself on a wing and a prayer hoping the plane will land safely. A holidaymaker returning to London Heathrow relives the horror of his plane attempting to land, not once but twice, in 100mph winds. The plane wavers from side to side like something from a disaster movie while it battles the savage Storm Eunice. A flight to Egypt faces a delay of epic proportions…36 hours. And a passenger en route to Thailand unwittingly finds herself in the Twilight Zone when she discovers she’s the only person on the flight. But the worst is yet to come, as the plane is heading right into the eye of a deadly storm.
Plus, there is bad behaviour of sky-high proportions when a man who gives himself a mile-high pedicure. And there’s the yoga-loving passenger who thinks it’s OK to stand on her head on her plane seat at 35,000 feet!
So, get ready for take-off, put your seatback in the upright position and kindly remain seated until the captain turns off the ‘seat belt sign’, When Holiday Flights Go Horribly Wrong narrated by Richard Arnold.
Interviewees include aviation supremo Jeremy Spake, flight safety expert Dai Whittingham and travel presenter Lucy Hedges.
Rating – 671,000 and a 4.9% share, beating Ch4 and BBC2. Peaking at 931,000 the highest Channel 5 peak rating of the day.