“Make nerves, terrifying and horrible.”
This is how a witness described his experience by leaving an American Airlines flight which caught fire after it was forced to make an emergency landing in Colorado.
Some of the 172 passengers traveling on the flight to Dallas were seen standing on the wing of the plane after it attracted Denver, with large plumes of smoke surrounded by them.
Everyone on board, including six crew members, came out of the living plane, with 12 passengers treated in the hospital for minor injuries, according to airport officials.
One of these passengers, Michele Woods, told CBS News, the American BBC partner, how everything on the flight seemed normal during takeoff.
It was only when they were sailing in the air that she noticed a very resonant noise of one of the engines of the plane.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States later confirmed that the plane turned away from Denver around 5.15 p.m. Local time (23:15 GMT) after the crew reported “engine vibrations”.
But even when the plane landed, the passengers quickly realized that they were still far from security.
“Everything was fine, but there was then smoke that filled the cabin,” said Ms. Woods, who returned home after attending a Salon in Colorado.
Assie at the front of the plane, she explained how she was one of the few in a position where they were able to leave the plane once he had attracted.
Other passengers, like now viral images People huddled standing on the wing of a smoking plane show, did not have such a simple escape.
Ingrid Hibbit, who was traveling on the 1006 flight with her husband and daughter, was one of the few unfortunate forced to go out on the wing before she could reconnect with her family on the ground.
“”[You could see] Flames of the window and windows [were] A kind of fusion, “said Hibbit. The dissuadation of the plane turned out to be a difficult task-not helped, she said, being dressed in Birkenstock sandals.
“I was like trembling, I was not stable,” she admitted.
Adding to her anxieties already in fever was not the fact that she, nor any member of her family, were seated in the same section of the plane. They could only communicate by SMS.
“I hoped that everything was fine, but we really did not know with certainty,” she said, adding that despite the test lasts only 10 minutes, “it was very long 10 minutes”.
“It was a really great feeling to see that everyone was fine.”
Friday morning, she and her family finally attracted Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, as well as several of the other passengers.
The relief, she said, had swept the group, especially after an “exhausting” episode that had overshadowed the start of their family vacation.
“If it had happened in the air, I don’t think we would tell this story, because who knows what it would have been,” she said. “I am grateful that everyone has survived.”
