Phil Aspin, a passenger on flight EZY2267 from Manchester to Gibraltar, has recounted the moment another plane went “straight into the side” of the aircraft as it prepared for take-off.
“We were about to take off,” he told the MEN. “They said it would be about 10 minutes, and we were second in the queue.
“There was a sort of crossroads in the runway. The best way to describe it is that there was a V, and we were just turning to the left, and they were going to the right-hand side. We were just stationary at the time.
“[Then] there was a massive thud, and the whole plane shook. My friend who was sitting next to the wing saw a piece of it fly across his window. There were lots of bits of wing on the floor, then a guy came and picked them up.
“It was a bit surreal. The pilot was talking to us at the time, saying we’d be taking off soon, then he went silent for a bit. He then said ‘there has been some sort of incident, and we’re going to have to assess it.'”
