“It’s nervous, frightening, frightening.”
That’s how her experiences of getting off an American Airlines flight that sparked a fire after being forced to make an emergency landing in Colorado explained her experience.
Some of the 172 passengers traveling along the boundary of the plane heading towards Dallas are seen standing on the plane’s wings after landing in Denver, surrounded by large amounts of smoke.
Airport officials said everyone, including six crew members, left the plane, and 12 passengers were treated for minor injuries at the hospital.
One of those passengers, Michele Woods, told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, how everything in the flight looks normal upon takeoff.
It was until they cruised in the air that they noticed the loud noise echoing from one of the plane’s engines.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the plane repurposed to Denver at about 17:15 local time (23:15 GMT) after crews reported “engine vibrations.”
However, even when the plane landed, passengers soon realized they were still far from safety.
“It was all fine, but there was smoke filling the cabin,” said Woods, who was back home after attending a Colorado exhibition.
Sitting in front of the plane, she explained that she was one of the few people in a position where she could leave the plane once she landed.
Other passengers weren’t that easy, like the image of the virus of secretly standing on the wings of smoking plane shows.
Traveling with her husband and daughter on flight 1006, Ingrid Hibbitt was one of the few unfortunate people who were kicked out into the wings before reuniting with her family on the ground.
“(You can see) flames from the windows and windows (it was melting) Hibbbitt told CBS. Getting off the plane turned out to be a difficult task – it wasn’t helped, she pointed out by wearing Birkenstock sandals.
“I seemed to tremble, I wasn’t stable,” she admitted.
In addition to her already fever anxiety, it was the fact that neither she nor her family members were sitting in the same section of the plane. You can only communicate via text messages.
“I thought everything was fine, but we really didn’t know for sure,” she said, adding that despite the ordeal lasting just 10 minutes, “it was a very long 10 minutes.”
“It was a really great feeling to see everyone was fine.”
She and her family finally landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Friday morning, along with some of the other passengers.
She swept the group, she said, after a “weary” episode that obscured the beginning of a family holiday.
“If this had happened in the air, I don’t think we’d tell this story at all. “I’m grateful that everyone survived.”
