Matthew McConaughey opened up about being on that Lufthansa flight final month, calling the incident “a hell of a scare.” The Oscar-winning actor and his spouse, Camila Alves McConaughey, had been flying from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt, Germany when the plane skilled sudden extreme turbulence and dropped 4,000 toes. Seven individuals had been hospitalized.
“It’s suspended disbelief. I mean, it’s zero gravity,” Matthew says on SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast with Kelly Ripa, in keeping with a sneak peek obtained by Entertainment Tonight. “Your red wine and the glass and the plates that your food was on are all suspended, floating, still just in the air. And to look at it for that long, which wasn’t that long — one, two, three, four [seconds] — and then everything just comes crashing down.”
The Texas native explains how he felt like he had “no way to get control of this situation the moment.”
“My tray table is what held me down. I did not have my seatbelt on, and there was not a seatbelt warning right before it happened,” he recollects. Matthew says he “immediately” checked on Camila to make sure she was buckled in.
“[We] held hands just saying, ‘OK, is that it? Is there another one coming?’ Another one did come,” he provides. “It was odd. You hear people’s reactions. Some people were ghost silent. Some people had big bursts of laughter. And it was not like, ‘Oh, this is fun.’ It was like, ‘I’m in shock.'”
The McConaugheys had been touring with a good friend, who occurred to be a pilot, and he helped calm them down by saying the Airbus A330 planes are “tested” and structurally “built” to deal with such incidents.
Camila first revealed she and her husband had been on board the March 1 flight that ended up getting diverted to a Washington, D.C., space airport. She shared a video of the turbulence contained in the cabin. Food, napkins and plates had been all around the ground.
“I was told [the] plane dropped almost 4,000 feet,” Camila wrote on Instagram. “Everything was flying everywhere… the plane was CHAOS — and the turbulence [kept] on coming.”
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