A terrifying moment flies as the 90-car Scandinavian Airlines plane crashes onto a holiday island runway before aborting the landing after engine problems in high winds

Terrifying footage has emerged of the moment a passenger plane with 90 people on board crashed onto a runway in Portugal after high winds caused a temporary engine failure.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) flight SK2901 departed Stockholm for Funchal, Madeira, on January 6 and was just touching down when a strong downdraft forced the plane onto the tarmac.

The Airbus A320 bounced off the runway, sparks flying as the landing gear absorbed incredible forces while flames briefly erupted from the left engine.

The plane then shot back into the air, with the pilot unable to release enough speed to land safely.

When he regained control of the plane, the pilot was instructed to hold for 20 minutes before landing again, but noticed the left engine was emitting fumes, the Aviation Herald reported.

Concerned about the safety of the engine, the SAS pilot opted to go to Las Palmas Airport in the Canary Islands – a facility better equipped to carry out engine maintenance and safety checks.

Despite the distressing incident, the SAS flight ultimately landed safely at Las Palmas airport and all 90 passengers disembarked without injury.

The Airbus A320 bounced off the runway, sparks flying as the landing gear absorbed incredible forces while flames briefly erupted from the left engine.

The plane bounced back into the air and the pilot noticed that the left engine began to emit fumes and decided to land at Las Palmas airport in Gran Canaria for maintenance.

The terrifying incident occurred just one day after an Alaska Airlines flight suffered a tire blowout at an altitude of 16,000 feet, causing the cabin door to tear open.

The Boeing plane suffered the sudden loss of pressure over Oregon on Friday and the resulting air current sucked open the cockpit door and ripped off the captain’s headset.

One of the passengers, Emma Vu, was sleeping when the Boeing 737 Max 9 suddenly fell after a plug covering an unused exit door blew off.

She wrote several panicked messages to her parents, saying: ‘The masks are off. I’m so scared right now. Please pray for me. I do not wanna die.’

Ms Vu later shared footage of the ordeal on TikTok, showing her wearing an oxygen mask as panic gripped her and other passengers nearby.

“You just think it’s never going to happen to you — and then it literally happened to me,” she said CNNadding that it was “very scary” and “very surreal.”

Another passenger, Sreysoar Un, who was traveling with her 12-year-old son, said she feared the plane would crash.

“We literally thought we were going to die,” she told the newspaper Wall Street Journal because the gap in the plane was just one row ahead of theirs. Her son Josiah saw his phone and a teddy bear fly out of the hole.

Alaska Flight 1282 was leaving Portland just after 5 p.m. local time on Friday when a window blew out at 16,000 feet

A photo shows the blown out window. It is offered as a door on the plane. Alaska chose not to take this option – even though the frame of the future door was completely torn out due to the hull failure

Several passengers described a loud noise before icy winds whipped through the cabin and oxygen masks fell down.

Alaska Airlines decided to limit the plane to long flights over water so that the plane could “return to an airport very quickly” if the warning light that could have indicated a depressurization problem reappeared on three different flights, Jennifer Homendy said. chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Homendy warned that the pressure light may not be related to Friday’s incident. It happened on three previous flights: on December 7, January 3 and January 4 – the day before the door plug broke off.

Homendy said she did not have all the details about the Dec. 7 incident, but indicated the light came on during a flight on Jan. 3 and on Jan. 4 after the plane landed.

One of the passengers, Emma Vu, was sleeping when the Boeing 737 Max 9 suddenly fell after a plug covering an unused exit door blew off. She wrote several panicked messages to her parents, saying: ‘The masks are off. I’m so scared right now. Please pray for me. I do not wanna die’

A passenger who filmed the tragedy said she woke up after a nap believing the plane had encountered turbulence – only to discover a large hole in the fuselage.

One passenger, Emma Vu, took to TikTok after surviving the horror flight that was only in the air for 20 minutes

The NTSB said the lost door plug was found Sunday near Portland, Oregon, by a school teacher — known for now only as Bob — who discovered it in his backyard and sent two photos to the safety board. Investigators will examine the plug, which measures 26 by 48 inches and weighs 63 pounds, for signs of how it became loose.

Investigators do not have the benefit of being able to hear what happened in the cockpit during the flight. The cockpit voice recorder — one of two so-called black boxes — recorded the sounds of the flight after two hours, Homendy said.

At a press conference Sunday evening, Homendy provided new details about the chaotic scene that unfolded on the plane.

The explosive airflow damaged several rows of seats and ripped insulation from the walls. The cockpit door flew open and collided with a toilet door.

The force ripped off the co-pilot’s headset and the captain lost part of her headset. A quick reference checklist kept within easy reach of the pilots flew out of the open cockpit, Homendy said.

However, the plane returned to Portland and none of the 171 passengers and six crew were seriously injured.