Passengers faint in heat as Thomas Cook jet held for 3hrs on Greek runway

Horrific ordeal in cabin ‘sweatbox’

bottles of water given out to the whole plane. Once this had run out cabin crew melted down ice for supplies.

“I saw one young woman suffer a panic attack. She needed oxygen and was taken away in an ambulance. It was traumatic and stressful.”

Flight MH1805 was expected to leave Zante for London Stansted Airport at 2pm on Sunday.

The flight was eventually cancelled and exhausted passengers sent to hotels but one said she “arrived to find cockroaches on the walls”.

She added: “We finally boarded the plane home – 12 hours later.”

Thomas Cook Airlines said: “Flight MT1805 was delayed due to an issue with on-board air conditioning.

“We recognise we should have disembarked the aircraft earlier.

“We are sorry. All customers will be given a letter of apology with detail on entitlement to compensation.”