Africa-Press – Mauritius. Upon check-in, the company announces an hour delay, following a technical incident. At 2 p. m. , the passengers and the plane were still grounded. Some had connecting flights.
But nothing went as planned. “In the departure lounge, everyone was already quite upset,” explains a passenger. All boarded, then disembarked before re-boarding in an aircraft chartered by Air Mauritius.
Twelve hours of waiting at Gillot airport for dozens of passengers on a Reunion-Mauritius flight delayed due to a technical incident. Report “Everything went off and on again”
“It was not an Air Mauritius aircraft but Qatar Airways, says a passenger. The staff on board did not speak French.
We boarded the plane and we stayed there for more than 2h30 with “engine tests”. Everything went off and on again”. Distraught passengers On the plane, passengers then begin to panic.
“The children were crying, a lady fainted, people were completely panicked and wanted to get off, says one of the passengers.
At one point, a group of people rebelled and asked to open the doors to get out of the plane. They didn’t want to go on that plane anymore. ” “Smells of kerosene and burning”
A stewardess then asks the passengers to sit back in their seats. “In a dry tone, she assures that the doors will not be opened, reports a passenger. There, it farted.
We were about thirty at the front of the plane, we did not want to go and sit down wanted to go out because we were scared”. Passengers describe “smells of kerosene and burning in the back of the plane and the lights going out”.
“It looked like a Bruce Willis movie ‘Hell’s Wings,’ comments one of them.
I’m not usually afraid, it’s not the first time we’ve taken the plane, but this was a horror movie”. Missed matches The passengers finally left around 11 p. m. on the plane in question after a switch was repaired and more than twelve hours late.
For some, the misadventure is not necessarily over because most of those who were just supposed to transit Mauritius have missed their flights to other destinations in the area.
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