Terrifying moment as plane appears to fill with smoke

World
Friday 12 December 2014 at 5:13pm

A plane cabin fills with vapour during a flight in the Phillippines Credit: YouTube

An air passenger captured this footage of what appears to be smoke flooding into a commercial aeroplane.

It was captured during a flight from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, to the island of Cebu.

The reporter who made the film, James Reynolds explained:

If Reynolds and his fellow passenger appeared unfazed by the experience, it may because he makes a living out of filming volcanoes, typhoons, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Thick condensation inside plane cabins is not as unusual as you might imagine. By some accounts, it is caused when the temperature drops quickly as the aircraft ascends from a warm and humid place to cruising altitude.

In June 2013, a passenger posted a photo of a cabin filled with waist-high steam with the caption "Last night flying out of JFK....this happened and freaked us out. Disco rave flight!"

A similar situation occurred on this EasyJet flight from Rhodes to London in August 2010.

(Video: YouTube/freeiand)

Some 200,000 residents of Cebu have been evacuated because of Typhoon Hagupit, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.

Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific cancelled more than 150 flights to central and southern Philippines on Friday and Saturday.