Hysterical air hostess causes panic on packed holiday jet after defective TV screen begins pouring smoke from cockpit

·  One man fainted and several others were sick during the terrifying ordeal

·  Passengers were told to adopt the brace position while the plane made an emergency landing

A tearful air hostess unleashed mass hysteria on a packed holiday jet when smoke began pouring from the cockpit.

Although the fault was minor - a defective TV screen - the panic that the teary flight attendant induced was terrifying.

One man fainted and had to be helped to get oxygen from an overhead mask, several others were sick and one reportedly injured her hand gripping rosary beads too tightly as she prayed for salvation

'She failed to inspire trust or confidence as she was fighting back tears,' said one irate passenger after the incident on a Swedish jet last Friday.

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After the Malmö Aviation flight plane from Sturup Airport, in Malmö Sweden, bound for Mallorca landed safely ten minutes later, with all passengers adopting the crash position with their heads between their knees, passengers complained that on-board staff still didn't explain what had happened.

'All we got to know was that the plane had been given permission for an emergency landing and that we should get into the emergency position with our heads between our knees,' said passenger Mattias Sonngård.

'It was total panic. People sat and screamed out that they didn’t want to die. The man in the seat behind me fainted and got help with the oxygen from another passenger. I asked an air hostess if we would crash on water or land. All I could think was that I didn’t want to drown – I wanted to die right away.

'When the plane eventually landed safely in Mallorca, flight staff still did not explain to the passengers what had happened, but sat on a bench and cried.'

Johan Westin, head of Malmö Aviation, said the fault would never have caused a serious problem.

He said the pilots were right to focus on landing the plane rather than informing the passengers, adding that he has 'full respect to the fact that passengers became scared.'

Officials from Fritidsresor, Sweden’s largest tour operator criticized Malmö Aviation’s lack of information to passengers.

'We understand that some of the passengers have experienced this as extremely unpleasant. Therefore, we want to ring around and check how everyone feels and how they experienced the onboard service,' a spokesman from the company told the paper.

'Sometimes it happens that people don't receive sufficient information about what has happened. If you’re the least bit afraid of flying, it’s obviously an extremely unpleasant and distressing situation.

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