Passengers share chaotic video of people screaming, things flying during turbulent transatlantic flight

A Scandinavian Airlines flight was diverted back to Europe after severe turbulence forced it back, according to a statement.

Flight SK957 with service to Miami was returning to Copenhagen when strong air over Greenland sent its 254 passengers and their luggage flying, as seen in a video taken by passenger Sammy Solstad.

Solstad’s video of the violent turbulence of the flight has since gone viral on the internet. In the chaotic video, people are heard screaming as he shouts: “Help her up!”

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Solstad, a Swede by birth but an American by choice, spoke to FOX Business about his harrowing experience aboard the plane.

“We come in over Greenland and we see turbulence and nothing crazy,” Solstad said. “Everything’s not as usual, you know, it’s always a little bit (turbulent), but my wife woke me up and she was worried and said, “it’s shaking a lot.” And I said, ‘it’s going to be okay.’ We also run a YouTube channel called Snipers where we basically let people come along on our adventures.”

Sammy Solstad, a YouTuber originally from Sweden, took video of the turbulence aboard the Scandinavian Airlines plane. (Sammy Solstad/Fox News)

“So, okay, I take a little video because people start screaming and they start being pretty rough. But I thought everything was okay, and right when I took that video — that’s the video you see, when people fly up (to) the roof or the attic — and when that happened, I realized, OK, this might actually be pretty bad,” Solstad said.

It was at this moment, captured on video, that a passenger was thrown onto the ceiling.

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“I saw this lady from Belgium flying up (to) the ceiling and back to the floor,” Solstad said. “You can see her a little bit in the video. You see her head and (it) flew up, and then you also see the feet after it came up. And she was just laying there and the staff didn’t do anything because we fell totally (down) at that point and I just couldn’t leave her there, so in the video you hear me screaming for them to pick her up and nobody did anything.

Video recorded by Solstad shows both passengers and bottles flying in the cabin. (Sammy Solstad/Fox News)

According to Solstad, instead of landing in nearby Canada, the plane was diverted for five hours over the open sea before finally landing in Copenhagen for inspection.

“We only had about, I don’t know, 30 minutes to the Canadian airport where we could make an emergency landing, but the pilots said they couldn’t because SAS wanted them to fly back to Scandinavia, so they can’t repair a fly there,” Solstad said. “And we had, as I said, about 30 minutes to Canada for an emergency landing. We had five hours left over the open sea to Copenhagen. And that’s when the panic started in the cabin and everyone freaked out because we had to sleep on a compromised plane for five hours across the Atlantic instead of 20, 30 minutes and landing somewhere.”

The SAS flight had to be diverted five hours over the open sea after severe turbulence. (Sammy Solstad)

SAS shared in a statement to CNN that passengers were given hotel rooms and helped rebook other flights upon landing. There were no reported injuries.

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SAS, the parent company of Scandinavian Airlines, did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.