Passengers on an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Paris began shouting out and crying as they thought their plane was about to ditch. Passengers on an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Paris began shouting out and crying as they thought their plane was about to ditch.

Passengers on an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Paris began shouting out and crying as they thought their plane was about to ditch, according to Sky News.

The drama followed an initial announcement made in English, telling passengers to return to their seats due to turbulence.

But then the crew accidentally played a recorded emergency landing warning in French as the plane was over the Irish Sea.

Around 70 French passengers were reported to be “freaked out” on hearing the warning — an English-speaking passenger said a French man sleeping next to him “woke up and looked very startled”.

“I got quite alarmed. The woman behind me was crying. All the French totally freaked out,” the passenger explained.

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“He then translated what had been said, that the plane was about to make an emergency landing and to await instructions from the pilot.”

The plane was reportedly 20 minutes into its flight to Paris when the bungled announcement was broadcast.

The Irish airline’s cabin crew quickly realised their mistake and quickly apologised in French.

An airline spokesman said: “There was a malfunction of the public address system and we apologised to our passengers — this sort of thing happens very rarely.”