Horrific details about the terrifying Qantas flight where passengers were tossed into the air as the plane suddenly lost control have been revealed.
Passengers were left covered in blood when flight QF72 'went psycho' on October 7, 2008, after the Airbus A330 nosedived twice with experienced pilot Kevin Sullivan at the helm.
Becky Bradbury has been haunted by the chaos on board the doomed flight for more than a decade.
She was just 17 and had barely seen the world when her life was almost cut short on board the flight from Singapore to Perth.
'I thought it was the end,' she told Sunday Night.
When the autopilot disconnected, Mr Sullivan did not know what to do as he wasn't trained for such an error. The plane began to nosedive 150 feet towards the ground, which the pilot managed to correct after taking manual control and a mayday call was issued
One crew member and 11 passengers were seriously injured while eight crew and 99 passengers suffered minor injuries
'I think being so young and not having experienced life outside of high school yet, you don't really know what to expect in the big world, and honestly I just thought that was it.'
For 50 minutes passengers were in a state of terror as the pilot struggled to stop the plane plunging thousands of feet over the Indian Ocean.
When the plane first lost control and began nosediving, Ms Bradbury was one of the passengers tossed from her seat and pinned to the ceiling.
There were holes in the ceiling and blood on the walls - but the horror was far from over.
The plane nosedived again, this time 400 feet. One of the three computers operating the autopilot was malfunctioning.
Becky Bradbury has been haunted by the chaos on board the doomed flight for over a decade
Mr Sullivan and his co-pilot were able to land the plane 50 minutes later after utilising landing strategies he learned when flying fighter jets. He was finally able to see the full extent of the
