Air Asia passengers were told to “pray” as a flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpa was turned around due to engine failure Sunday morning.

Emily and her mum were on the flight and were back at the airport on Monday morning and told 6PR Breakfast: “We started freaking out because we didn’t know what was going to happen and the plane started to just shake seriously and there was no announcement until five minutes in.”

“Everyone panicked a little bit just because it sounded like we weren’t going to get home safely,” she told Steve and Baz.

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