Delta Airlines plane crashed and flipped while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17.
Luckily, all of the 76 passengers and the four members of the crew survived. Eighteen people have been injured with only few of them reported to have sustained more serious injuries.
“We are very grateful there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries,” Deborah Flint, CEO of Greater Toronto Airports Authority, said.
One of the passengers, and a plane crash survivor, who was on the flight that was heading from Minneapolis to Toronto was John Nelson.
He recalled the moment the plane flipped upside down.
In an interview with ABC News, Nelson described the intense conditions, saying, “The winds were whipping pretty hard, and the runways were covered in snow. There was no warning.”
He recalled the plane hitting the ground “extremely hard,” before bouncing slightly and tilting to the left.
“It happened so fast. There was a huge fire along the side. I could actually feel the heat through the glass,” Nelson recalled. “Then we were moving sideways. I’m not even sure how many times we tumbled, but we ended up upside down,” he told ABC News‘ George Stephanopoulos.
The plane crash survivor shared his vivid memory of the harrowing experience with CNN, saying, “It was a surreal feeling. Then everyone was shouting, ‘Get out! Get out! Get out!’”
He continued, “We could smell jet fuel. Even now, I can still smell it.”
Fortunately, all passengers and crew members were evacuated before the fire spread further through the aircraft.
Many agree that it was miracle the plane didn’t burst into flames.
“The fact this plane did not explode in flames because of the amount of jet fuel is nothing short of a miracle,” one person commented on YouTube. “Thank god all the souls on this flight survived.” Airlines
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