- A Southwest flight had to abort landing in North Carolina on Friday night due to bad weather.
- Passengers told local media that severe turbulence prompted people to throw up and pass out.
Multiple passengers vomited and one passed out after a Southwest plane had to abort a landing at 1,350 feet due to bad weather, according to multiple reports.
The passengers were then left at an empty terminal for around four hours, reports claim.
Southwest flight 3094, a Boeing 737, was landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina on Friday night when it was engulfed by bad weather, airlines officials confirmed to Insider.
The plane shook "like crazy" during the landing, causing chaos, two passengers on the flight, Nicholas Reed and his girlfriend Krys Spence, told CBS 17.
"Coming into Raleigh they started landing like normal. We had the window open in our seat so we could actually see the ground," Reed told CBS 17. "The wings were flapping. They were shaking."
The couple said they saw at least two passengers around them vomiting and another passenger passing out from a panic attack. "But everyone was pretty silent. I guess they were just in suspense like 'this could be it,'" Reed added.
The pilots had to eventually abort the landing at 1,350 feet and reroute the flight to Myrtle Beach International Airport, in South Carolina, flight data shows, according to WNCN.
But even though the flight landed safely in Myrtle Beach, airport officials kept passengers on the plane for two more hours before they were allowed to exit the plane, Reed said. The group was then kept in a closed terminal at the airport for another four hours with little information, or provisions, he added.
"We couldn't go anywhere because they wouldn't give us our luggage," Reed told CBS 17. "One group of guys found a bar and went behind it and just started pouring themselves drinks — because there was no security."
"They didn't offer us meal vouchers or anything. I was like, we fly Southwest all the time," he added.
At around 1 a.m. local time, another plane arrived and flew the passengers to their original destination in Raleigh.
Southwest Airlines told Insider in a statement: "We made the decision to safely divert Southwest flight 3094 (BWI - RDU) to Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR) due to adverse weather conditions at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU)."
"We brought another crewed aircraft into MYR to transport the customers to their scheduled destination," they added. "We apologize to the customers for the flight disruption incurred as our crew worked to safely navigate the weather and will communicate directly with those onboard."