Passengers started collapsing about an hour into the journey. 

The flight attendants brought out oxygen tanks to aid the fallen, who were “scattered across the front and center” of a Jan. 31 Ryanair flight headed from Budapest to Edinburgh, reported the Scottish Sun newspaper.

“It was the flight from hell,” passenger Shaun Pinkerton said.

Warning signs apparently began before the commercial airliner took off.

“The fire alarm was going off while we were boarding but the flight took off as planned,” said Pinkerton, who was one of the passengers stricken. “There was something seriously wrong with that flight.”

Pinkerton said three passengers needed CPR and four total were seriously ill; Ryanair said in a statement that two passengers became sick. People onboard reportedly began to panic during the flight, concerned there “wasn’t enough oxygen.”

The flight was not diverted to a nearby airport. It continued to its scheduled destination in Scotland.

Pinkerton, a 27-year-old garage manager, said he was one of the passengers who passed out. “I went into shock and was total shaking,” he said. He said he’s filed a complaint with the airline.

Ryanair told another British newspaper, The Independent, that the crew radioed ahead to request “medical assistance on landing” and insisted the aircraft was operating properly throughout the flight.

The Irish budget airline, the busiest in Europe, said the illnesses were not related to one another.

-- Douglas Perry

@douglasmperry

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