Passengers feared it was ‘the end’ as Qatar Airways flight hit extreme turbulence: ‘I’m still shivering’

Terrified passengers on the Qatar Airways’ Boeing jet hit by severe turbulence Sunday recalled seeing unbuckled travelers “literally flying” around the cabin – with some convinced they were about to die.

“The flight was scary — to be honest, I’m still shivering,” Mufassal Ali said soon after landing safely in Dublin.

“That was the worst 15 seconds of my life,” he said of the sudden drop on the flight that ended with 12 people injured, including eight who were hospitalized

“I saw a few people — they were literally flying in the plane,” he said of those tossed from their seats.

Cheryl Sukar recalled how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner just “dropped” mid-flight. “Unfortunately there was a couple of passengers that didn’t have seatbelts on, so they were thrown out of their seats and hit their heads,” she said.

One unnamed passenger told RTE that she thought the terrifying moment was “the end of her life.”

Philomena Prendergast shared similar fears as she said she was “very thankful to be down from the flight.”

“It was so scary at the time, you just don’t know — is this it, or not?” she said.

Emma Rose Power said there “was panic, the look of panic everywhere” when the Doha-to-Dublin flight hit turbulence over Turkey.

“Some of the flight attendants had scratches to their face, ice to their face… one girl had a sling on her arm,” Power said of the injured.

Another passenger, Cathal, showed RTE how his shorts had been ripped during the incident.

“It was just atrocious…never again,” he shook his head, adding that his dinner tray was tossed off his lap by the bumps.

Several uninjured passengers were still visibly upset hours after the turbulence.

“It was so scary… I am not in a hurry to get back on a plane I can tell you,” a woman named Eileen tearfully told RTE.

Eileen’s partner, Tony, said he had to hold the grandmother down as she was sleeping and was not wearing her seatbelt when the turbulence started.

Passenger Paul Mocc recalled watching the people smacking the roof of the plane – and commended the scratched-up flight attendants for continuing cabin service for the remainder of the flight.

The terrifying turbulence came just one week after a 73-year-old British man died and 30 others were injured when a Singapore Airlines flight dropped 6,000 feet and sent passenger careening into overhead bins.

With Post wires