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AIRLINE HORROR FLIGHT THRU HAIL STORM!
Passengers tell of hailstones flight terror Passengers aboard a flight from Cyprus said they thought their aircraft was about to crash as it was battered by giant hailstones in a freak weather pocket. Bmi flight BD8412 ran into the violent weather as it approached Manchester from Larnaca, causing the nose cone to cave in and the windshield to crack. Terrified passengers were thrown from their seats as the hail bounced from the plane. Pat Mallon, a 56-year-old medical secretary, said: "We suddenly started to dip like a rollercoaster and were lifted from our seats. "As I looked to the left there was man on the floor sliding towards the cockpit. As I looked to the right there were several elderly people on the floor but they were told to stay down because it was safer there." None of the 213 passengers or eight crew on board was injured. Bruce Johnstone, a 47-year-old photo-journalist who was travelling to Manchester for a family wedding, said "People were thrown out of their seats. Some people were in the aisles on the floor. I was just hanging on for dear life. "We had hit hail, blocks of ice. We heard it and it sounded like a machine gun." The flight landed at Manchester Airport about half an hour behind schedule on Monday at 7.10pm. A spokesman for bmi said: "Whilst the aircraft sustained visible external damage, none of the aircraft's operational control systems were affected." 
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