The mens basketball team from Butler university had the scariest moments of their life on a team flight on Thursday. They were flying back to Indiana from New York after facing St. Johns, when they had to make an emergency landing in Pittsburgh.

“It started to get really cold, and the plane went completely dark,” Butler head coach Chris Holtmann told ESPN’s Jeff Goodman. “Then all the oxygen masks came flying down, and the flight attendant told everyone to put the masks on. She kept repeating it. We had a really rapid descent. In the span of 10 or 12 minutes, we went from 35,000 feet to 10,000 feet.”

Things got so scary in the air that staff members and players were trying to send frantic text messages to loved ones thinking the plane may crash.

“As a coach, you are obviously thinking of your family,” Holtmann said. “But you are also thinking about all the young men on the plane. I was shook. It was scary. We had guys crying.”

Thankfully everything was OK in the end and the team finished their flight on Friday, although some players were understandably still freaked out and wanted to drive back to campus instead.

Written by @IamJoeSports