Passenger shares chaotic video of people screaming and objects flying during turbulent transatlantic flight

A Scandinavian Airlines flight was turned back to Europe after severe turbulence forced its return, according to a statement.

Miami-bound flight SK957 was traveling back to Copenhagen when rough skies over Greenland sent the 254 passengers and their luggage flying, as seen in a video taken by passenger Sammy Solstad.

Solstad’s video of the flight’s severe turbulence has since gone viral online. In the chaotic video, people are heard screaming as he shouts, “Help her up!”

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Solstad, a Swede by birth but an American by choice, spoke to FOX Business about his harrowing experiences on board the flight.

“We come over Greenland and see turbulence and nothing crazy,” Solstad said. “Everything is not like normal, you know, it’s always a bit (turbulent), but my wife woke me up and she was worried and said ‘it’s shaking a lot.’ And I said, ‘It’s going to be okay.’ We also have a YouTube channel called Snipers where we basically let people join us on our adventures.”

Sammy Solstad, a YouTuber originally from Sweden, captured a video of the turbulence on board the Scandinavian Airlines flight. (Sammy Solstad/Fox News)

“So okay, I’ll make a little video because people start screaming, and they start getting pretty rough. But I thought everything was fine when I made that video – that’s the video you see when the people go up flying (on) the roof or on the ceiling — and when that happened I realized, okay, this might be pretty bad,” Solstad said.

At that moment, captured on video, a passenger was thrown into the ceiling.

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“I saw a lady from Belgium who flew to the ceiling and back to the ground,” Solstad said. “You can see her a little bit in the video. You see her head and (it) flew up, and then you see the feet come up after that too. And she was just laying there, and the staff didn’t do that. I couldn’t do anything because we were totally falling at that point. And I just couldn’t let her down. So in the video you hear me yelling for them to pick her up and no one did anything.”

Video taken by Solstad shows both passengers and bottles flying into the cabin. (Sammy Solstad/Fox News)

According to Solstad, instead of landing in nearby Canada, the plane was diverted across the open ocean for five hours before finally landing in Copenhagen for inspection.

‘We only had about, I don’t know, 30 minutes to the Canadian airport where we could make an emergency landing, but the pilots said they weren’t allowed to because the SAS wanted them to fly back to Scandinavia, so they can’t get a plane do not repair. plane there,” Solstad said. “And we had, like I said, about 30 minutes to Canada for an emergency landing. We had five hours back across an open ocean to Copenhagen. And then the panic started in the cabin and everyone panicked because we were going to sleep through the night. a compromised plane for five hours over the Atlantic Ocean instead of twenty, thirty minutes and an emergency landing somewhere.”

The SAS flight had to be diverted over the open ocean for five hours due to heavy turbulence. (Sammy Solstad)

SAS said in a statement to CNN that the passengers were given hotel rooms and helped to rebook other flights upon landing. No injuries have been reported.

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SAS, the parent company of Scandinavian Airlines, did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.