“Our plane crashed. It’s upside down.”
These were the words of John Nelson, one of the passengers on an aerial flights that just crashed and turned during the landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The airport’s CEO said that all 80 people are on a flight from Minneapolis – 76 passengers and four crew – have survived.
Eighteen passengers were injured. The local paramedics said that three people – a child, a man in his sixties and a woman in her forties – were seriously wounded, but officials said they were not aware of anyone with critical injuries.
“Most people seem to be fine. We are all coming down,” said Mr. Nelson in a video posted on Facebook shortly after the accident.
Tell CNN later that there was no indication of anything unusual before landing.
“I slipped on our side, then we turned on our back,” he said, adding that “there was a large fire ball outside the left side of the plane.”
Like Mr. Nelson, Ashley Zouk immediately took on social media to express her lack of belief, and photographing herself saying: “I was in a plane crash. Oh my God.”
The passengers were left hanging from the ceiling of the cabin.
“We were upside down, a hanging head like bats,” Peter Kokov, who was also on the plane, told CNN.
Another passenger, Carlson’s House, told CBC: “One minute is you landing, and awaits somewhat to see your friends and people, and at the next moment you are physically upside down,” CBC told CBC.
Mr. Nelson said he was able to dismantle himself pushing himself to Earth. “Some people were suspended and needed some help … others were able to get off alone,” he said.
Mr. Carlson said the passengers soon worked as a team. “What I saw is that everyone on that plane has suddenly became very soon, in terms of how to help each other, and how to console each other.”
Common video footage on social media shows that people climb from engraved aircraft, as firefighters spray them foam.
Travelers were seen on the help of the plane doors by the airport staff, as some escape from the entrance to the plane.
Although a plane turned over the runway, Diane Perry said she learned of the accident when her family called her while she was to check her luggage.
“It was irony that we were at the airport and we did not know that there was an accident abroad,” she told the BBC.
The cause of the accident is not yet clear. You will stay closed for several days to investigate and ask the passengers to expect some delay.
Mr. Nelson is still dealing with what happened just, as CNN was told that he was “tense, nervous, still fragile.” He added: “It is amazing that we are still here.”
This feeling was echoed by Mr. Carlson, who said he was “really amazing” to be alive, while he was rising on his head. “I am a little bit of what I was this morning,” he said.
