WK that video sends shivers down my spine. Last night I was in a small Embraer 190 aircraft and the pilot attempted twice to land at Jeddah and aborted it twice. The plane was shaking tremendously and it was full of air pockets and clouds. Once I thought I saw the runway 100 m below through a small hole in the foggy clouds, and then it was all dark again. The noise was horrifying! The feeling was just like the last scene of United 93! No one could guess what it would come to. And to make everyone more nervous the guy behind me threw up.
I wasn't feeling so bad until a guy near me started his loud prayers in Arabic! Thank God! after the second attempt he didn't persist and diverted the plane to Madinah. when the Captain announced that 'bad weather conditions didn't permit us to land at Jeddah, so he will be heading to the alternate destination Madinah' there was a huge sigh of relief and claps from the passengers. Until that time all crew were out of sight and no updates were given to us!
Those few moments were so long and really spine chilling.