Singer Chesney Hawkes has instructed Sky News of his "terrifying ordeal" and the way he thought he and his spouse have been going to die when the airplane they have been on abruptly plunged 20,000ft.

The 51-year-old musician was travelling to Spain to carry out at a marriage and different exhibits when his flight declared an emergency because it handed over Italy.

Hawkes, well-known for his 1991 hit, The One And Only, instructed how a stewardess warned passengers "the plane's going down, we're all going to die" as "everybody started panicking" on the Aegean Airlines Airbus A320.

He was along with his spouse, Kristina, and 156 different folks flying from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Barcelona when the "harrowing" incident occurred final week.

He stated: "We were halfway from Greece to Barcelona, where I was going to do some shows in Spain, and the airplane simply began to drop and all people's ears began to go.

"The stewardess - there's no easy way of saying this - she completely lost her mind, was running down the aisle screaming at everybody telling them to put their masks on, and everyone started to kind of panic around us. It was a crazy scene.

"This went on for fairly some time, truly - all people began panicking after which the captain came visiting the loudspeakers and stated, 'emergency descent, emergency descent, brace, brace'.

"Of course, this is the last thing you want to hear when you're 37,000 feet up and it was a very kind of terrifying ordeal.

"My spouse and I simply sort of checked out one another and had this type of second of, 'oh, is that this it? Is this how this ends?'

"Meanwhile, the stewardess is now foetal position on the floor with her mask on."

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'The airplane's on its aspect - I assumed that was it'

Hawkes continued: "She's screaming at this guy who was filming. The stewardess was screaming, saying 'the plane's going down, we're all going to die and you're filming'.

"It's simply loopy stuff. I regarded out the window and the airplane's, like, on its aspect, wanting down on the sea and, actually, I assumed that was it."

The singer told how his wife remained calm as they decided to leave a farewell message for their children.

He added: "My spouse and I have been like, 'this might be it - we've got to inform the children we love them'. The very first thing that got here into our heads was we have got to go away a message for the children.

"So we opened up our WhatsApp group with our kiddos and we just said, 'we don't know what's happening. The plane seems to be going down. We love you. We're proud of you. Please look after each other'.

"It was actually, like, harrowing - Krissy, my spouse, was simply completely calm as a cucumber and I used to be like a blubbering mess."

The aircraft safely made an emergency landing in Naples before Hawkes said the same passengers boarded another flight "on the identical sort of airplane" to Barcelona.

The singer previously said the pilot was a "hero" and that thankfully his children never had to hear the goodbye message.

He said last week: "All the crew have been nice, even the stewardess who had a second.

"And thankfully we managed to delete the WhatsApp message when we landed before any of them listened to it."

He additionally tweeted an image of himself with the pilot, captioned: "Thank you to all that kept their heads cool, especially #captainfantastic for landing our plane safely today.

"This was not what we anticipated at present, but it surely's made us recognize life and people we love simply that little bit extra."

Content Source: information.sky.com