Video: Passengers panic after plane makes rough landing

"The aircraft just got a point where it then just seemed to drop from the sky directly onto the tarmac. "

Passengers in a Ryanair plane were jolted out of their holidaying mood after their flight landed with a huge bang at the windy Leeds Bradford Airport, West Yorks - the highest airport in the UK.
As the wheels of Boeing 737-800 plane touched the tarmac, they bounced off it. Due to the huge impact, the tourists were thrown forward and started panicking.
The Ryanair flight had taken off from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.
The video - captured by passenger Craig Cullinan - shows the moment of the plane's rough landing.
Talking to the MailOnline, Cullinan said: "The aircraft just got a point where it then just seemed to drop from the sky directly onto the tarmac. We came down with such a thud at first I thought the landing gear was going to collapse and we would end up sliding along the runway. The aircraft threw passengers left and right, with the pilot eventually gaining control and straightening us up." 
He added, "Just to rub salt into the wounds, rather than the pilot apologising to passengers on the extremely heavy landing, they instead played the Ryanair fan fair as we started taxing to the gate thanking us for flying with Ryanair."
 
A Ryanair spokesman was quoted as saying: "The aircraft experienced cross winds on approach to Leeds Bradford airport and landed normally and safely."  
The budget airline added: "They landed safely and there was never any danger of the landing gear collapsing. This is a false, misleading and sensationalist claim."