August 2, 200520 yr Author And what makes this one weird is the plane was landing in a thunderstorm - Air France Airbus A340... 20 years to the day, an L1011 Delta plane crashed, while landing in a thunderstorm, at Dallas/Fort Worth.
August 2, 200520 yr I just heard this on the ANB 7 Newsbrief....pretty f***ed up. My prayers to those on board and their families.
August 2, 200520 yr QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 2, 2005 -> 04:49 PM) Canada news is saying 0 fatalities. Awesome! Wow, that is amazing considering the eyewitness descroption that half the plane fell off and the rest burst into flames. Great news!
August 2, 200520 yr TORONTO, Canada (CNN) -- Firefighters are battling a blaze on board an international passenger jet that overran a runway at Tornoto's Pearson International Airport. "This plane came off the runway. It slid off the runway and into this gully," said Toronto radio reporter Leah Walker, who witnessed the crash. "It's come off with probably a great amount of force into trees and the creek." She said a fireball engulfed the plane. The Associated Press reported 200 passengers were on board the Airbus 340. A fire department spokesman said there were reports that some people were taken to hospitals, but he could not confirm information on casualties. Canada's Global Television network said the pilot and co-pilot survived. One passenger, Olivier Dubos told reporters: "We had absolutely no insight or hint that the landing would be difficult. Power went out just before we landed...we thought it had to do with the rain." Flight 358 was scheduled to arrive from Paris's Charles de Gaulle International Airport at 3:35 p.m. ET. Severe thunderstorms had occurred in the area beforehand. Another witness, Corey Marx, said, "Everything looked good, sounded good. It hit the runway nice, then all of a sudden we heard the engines backing up." Marx said he initially didn't think anything was wrong. But then, "The guy I was with piped up, 'You know, he's getting pretty close to the end.' Immediately afterward, right off he went." The plane fell into a valley at the end of the runway and cracked in half, Marx said. Vito Porto, a freelance photographer, told Global television that an explosion occurred after the crash, throwing debris for several hundred feet. Smoke billowed from the site, as scores of emergency workers sought to put out the fire with foam.
August 2, 200520 yr "The guy I was with piped up, 'You know, he's getting pretty close to the end.' Immediately afterward, right off he went."
August 2, 200520 yr QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 2, 2005 -> 05:33 PM) Incredible if there are no fatalities... in fact, I say a miracle. I know, amazing, that thing was a ball of flames.
August 3, 200520 yr QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Aug 2, 2005 -> 10:50 PM) After seeing the footage, miracle is the only word that can describe this. That's because God loves French people! Seriously, if there is no loss of life in this incident then Kind Providence was indeed smiling on the folks in that plane.
August 3, 200520 yr i saw that, it made it sound like it crashed on tv not skidded off the landing point, amazing story that all of these people lived, god was with them
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