Passengers on an international flight feared the worst after their pilot collapsed in the cockpit 30,000 feet in the air.
Thomson Holiday flight 1714 was 16 minutes into its journey from Newcastle, UK to Larnaca, Cyprus when a passenger saw the pilot "lying prostrate on the floor", according to The Sun.
Panic and fear spread through the plane when crew members were seen rushing to collect oxygen cylinders to take into the cockpit.
"It was terrifying," one passenger, a father of one, told The Sun.
"I glimpsed inside the cockpit door. There was coffee all over the floor and it looked like the guy had collapsed.