Sunderland midfielder Jack Rodwell has recounted his horrifying experience on board a recent flight from Newcastle to Geneva.

The entire Sunderland squad and manager David Moyes were on their way to pre-season training camp in Evian, France when their plane suffered an engine malfunction.

The plane was forced to divert and made an emergency landing at Manchester Airport.

"We shouted for the air hostess and asked if she had heard the noise. She had, and we could tell her face wasn't right. She said, 'We've got to go down, it's not good'. It was scary," Rodwell told reporters.

"It sounded like a chainsaw trying to start. We were like, 'What the hell was that?'

"It sounded a bit like bags had actually dropped out of the plane.

"It was worrying me that they didn't really keep us informed. I was thinking, 'Are they even on top of this here?'

"It took us 15 minutes to get down and you're thinking, 'What if the other engine goes?'

"You're gone then aren't you?

"When we landed they said it was actually worse than what they made out.

"They told us it was a one in 35 million chance of that sort of thing happening."