Local man describes ‘terrifying’ Delta flight out of Salt Lake City that hospitalized 25

IDAHO FALLS — A local real estate agent was one of the passengers on a terrifying Delta flight on Wednesday evening that hospitalized 25 passengers.

Idaho Falls resident Andrew Schneider says he was en route to Amsterdam from Salt Lake City, on his way to a final destination in Istanbul, Turkey, when he experienced what he’s only seen in movies.

“It’s one of those experiences that you can’t really imagine until you go through it,” says Schneider. “I couldn’t have ever imagined something as terrifying as that, to be honest.”

According to CNN, the plane was carrying 275 customers and 13 crew members. Schneider was seated in Delta Comfort+ near the front of Delta flight 56, which departed from Salt Lake City at 4:30 p.m.

The Airbus A330-900 was flying over Wyoming when Schneider says he h