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Air France crash in Toronto
I consider this an amazing miracle that only 14 people were injured and there were no deaths from this plane crash. I've been following this on the news and it was reported that people from the plane and the co-pilot flagged down the cars from a nearby highway. Those cars that stopped picked up the passengers and assisted them as well which makes it so amazing. The whole scene was caught on Toronto's weather cam.
TORONTO - A jetliner carrying 309 people skidded off a runway while landing in a thunderstorm Tuesday, sliding into a ravine and breaking into pieces, but remarkably everyone aboard survived by jumping to safety in the moments before the plane burst into flames.
Fourteen people suffered minor injuries in the 4:03 p.m. crash landing of Air France Flight 358 from Paris — the first time an Airbus A340 had crashed in its 13 years of commercial service.
The plane, carrying 297 passengers and 12 crew, overshot the runway by 200 yards at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, said Steve Shaw, a vice president of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.
The aircraft skidded down a slope into a wooded area next to one of Canada's busiest highways, and some survivors said that passengers scrambled up to the road to catch rides with passing cars.
Air France crash in Toronto
I consider this an amazing miracle that only 14 people were injured and there were no deaths from this plane crash. I've been following this on the news and it was reported that people from the plane and the co-pilot flagged down the cars from a nearby highway. Those cars that stopped picked up the passengers and assisted them as well which makes it so amazing. The whole scene was caught on Toronto's weather cam.
He said some passengers scrambled onto nearby Highway 401, where cars stopped, picked them up and took them to the airport. Two busloads of passengers were taken to an airport medical center.