Sigourney Weaver still learning to fly after recent mid-flight panic

Sigourney Weaver has revealed that she hasn’t been put off learning pilot her own plane even though she was involved in a mid-air emergency on a commercial flight earlier this year.

She explained recently: “There was a big sound at the back of the plane. Something must have popped open I guess and all the oxygen masks dropped down.

“We had to dive about 10,000 feet so our brains wouldn’t pop but the stewardesses were such terrible actors.

“They were running up and down saying things like, ‘How’s your water?’ when it was obvious they were panicking. I was curiously calm, but what can you do?”

The Alien star took her first flying lessons in Canada a few weeks later, describing the experience as “exhilirating”.