A veteran air traffic controller has told of sheer panic in the cabin of a 'fully loaded' Airways Dreamliner that rapidly descended after take-off from Doha, coming within seconds of hitting the water.One person vomited, he said – and 'people all around the cabin screamed'.Lucas Andersson has been an air traffic controller for 20 years - and just happened to be a passenger on flight QR161 from Doha to Copenhagen on January 10, a 2am flight that plummeted at a rate of 50 feet a second shortly after it took to the air. According to a 'playback' of the take-off, it came within 850ft of the water - or 17 seconds - having climbed initially to 1,850ft.
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