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LMGTFY:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=That%20jumbo%...

Having Google Translate take that into French and then back gave me "The passengers of this jumbo jet, caught in a quagmire resembling an ocean liner, found a happy accident in this chaotic and surprising landing." I quite like both sentences.

I can barely say that in English, and I'm a native speaker.

A glitchy huddle of passengers?

I think that glitchy is not used meaningfully. A huddle of glitchy passengers, perhaps, if they are all androids.

do androids dream of electric airliners?

This one does.

They weren't staying in their seats is another more prosaic explanation.