ROMULUS, Mich. – A Spirit Airlines flight that took off from Detroit Metro Airport Friday morning was forced to return and make an emergency landing after it lost cabin pressure.
Flight 417 left at about 6:30 a.m. en route to Ft. Lauderdale.
"Everything seemed alright at first. And then we got up in the air and the turbulence was bad. The plane started bouncing around in the air," said passenger Isaac Fuller.
Passengers on the flight told Local 4 they smelled strange fumes even before take off, but it wasn't until they were airborne that the captain announced the flight was being returned to Detroit.
Fuller said when the oxygen masks fell, things got "spooky."
"It was a really scary experience," he said.
Spirit is working to re-book the diverted passengers on other flights.
Local 4 is waiting for a statement from Spirit Airlines.
"I never experienced anything like that." --Spirit passenger on rough turbulence before going back to Metro #Local4 pic.twitter.com/srR8S7vYzr
— «Jason Colthorp» (@JasonColthorp) July 1, 2016
AIR EMERGENCY: Spirit flight en route to Ft. Lauderdale heads back to Metro due to loss of cabin pressure. #Local4 pic.twitter.com/Bgl0bFEQA3
— «Jason Colthorp» (@JasonColthorp) July 1, 2016