Ferdinand revealed everybody on the plane was reduced to tears as they thought that the aircraft was going to crash.
The year was 2006 and the Three Lions were partaking in the World Cup in Germany and after topping a group of Sweden, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago.
England saw off Ecuador in the Round of 16 stage to book a quarter-final game against Portugal thanks to David Beckham’s lone goal.
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s men were painfully knocked out of the tournament by the Portuguese on penalties and had to return home from Germany.
Things got worse on their way back to England as a bad weather nearly caused a fatal crash, but fortunately, the plane, including stars like Beckham and Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard among others made it to London safely.
"We'd just been knocked out of the competition by Portugal in the quarter finals and we had the worst flight back you can imagine," Ferdinand told The Sun.
"We got caught up in some terrible weather and everybody thought we were going to crash. We were all crying.
"I was sat near Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard and their wives and everyone was screaming. It was turbulence on another level. It was mental and people and luggage were all over the place and no one knew what was going on.
"I definitely thought, 'This is it,' especially when I looked at the air stewardesses. You can always gauge how serious things are by their expressions and I looked at them and they were all sat down in their seats stony faced and clearly thinking, 'F***, we're in trouble'.
"I'm usually quite calm but then I looked at them and I was properly scared."
