Survivors of the horrific Air India Express plane that skidded off the runway, crashing nose-first into the ground and cracking in two, described a nightmarish escape from the doomed plane.

The Friday evening crash left at least 18 dead.

Renjith Panangad, a plumber returning home after three years on the job in Dubai, said from his hospital bed that the plane swayed and everything went dark before the crash.

He said he and other passengers crawled out of the fuselage through the emergency exit, the Times of India reported Saturday.

“A lot of passengers were bleeding,” Panangad said, who escaped without major injuries. “I still can’t comprehend what happened. … My body is shivering.”

The plane, which was bringing Indians stranded in Dubai due to the COVID-19 pandemic back home, overshot the runway of the Calicut International Airport in heavy rain near the southern city of Kozhikode Friday.

The flight was carrying 190 passengers and crew.

The plane’s pilot and the co-pilot were killed in the accident, K Gopalakrishnan, chief of the Malappuram district in the southern state of Kerala, told Reuters.

The Boeing-737 plane slid off the table-top runway of Calicut and crashed nose-first. Such runways are located at an altitude with steep drops at one or both ends.

Most passengers survived because the plane didn’t catch fire when it skidded off the runway, an aviation official said.