A Jersey City artist has recounted the gut-wrenching moments he thought he was “going to die” on a United Airlines flight that plummeted nearly 30,000 feet in 10 minutes earlier this week.
Tato Lovere, 47, said she was on United Airlines Flight 510 from Newark to Rome with her boyfriend when the plane suddenly began to nose down, sending her and other passengers into a panic.
“You see people’s heads turning, you have people looking at each other, you have people looking for answers without shouting,” he told The Post.
“You really think you’re going to die,” he added later.
Shortly after the Boeing 777 to Italy took off at 9:20 p.m., the artist, who was on his way to celebrate his birthday and meet a gallery in Rome, said that the captain and flight attendants started coming over the intercom system repeatedly, informing passengers of a potential problem with plane.
Tattoo artist Lovere thought he was “going to die” on a United Airlines flight that plunged 28,000 feet in 10 minutes.Tato Lovere
Lovere texted his daughter while on the plane telling her he loved her.Lovere Tattoo
Around 10:07 p.m., Lovere recalled a “painful feeling” gripping his body as the plane pitched forward, before falling 28,000 feet in 10 minutes, according to flight tracker FlightAware.
“I tried my best to text my daughter without causing fear, telling her that I love her so much and that I’m proud of her,” he said, then recalled how the flight attendant spoke to passengers amid the chaos as if “she cries or has cried or feels helpless.”
Lovere said that amid her own in-flight horror show, her daughter had been tracking the plane online, restless as her mother circled through the air over Halifax.
“He was on the phone with United asking them about why he saw his mother’s flight [was] going in circles over Halifax,” he said. “United told him everything [was] fine.”
The plane’s captain eventually came over and announced that the plane might have to make an emergency landing in Halifax, before revealing that the plane had begun to dump fuel and was being diverted back to Newark Liberty International Airport, landing just before 12:30 a.m.
In a video shared with The Post by Lovere at the airport entrance, a United captain claimed over a loudspeaker at the attendance desk that there was “a 6 or 8 inch hole in the side of the plane, so that’s what’s causing our stress. issue.”
Lovere had gone to Rome with her boyfriend to celebrate her birthday and meet art gallery members.AP
Lovere said that the captain warned that the plane might have to make an emergency landing in Halifax, Canada Tato Lovere
A United Airlines spokeswoman said the plane returned to Newark Liberty International Airport “to address a possible loss of cabin pressure.”
“The flight landed safely and there was never a loss of cabin pressure,” the spokesman said.
Lovere and her boyfriend were rebooked on the next United flight to Rome a few hours later, but the experience has shattered any sense of security on future flights.
“I’ll definitely be on edge” on the plane, he said.
“I’ll probably check every window now. Every gap that passes.”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
