‘I was sure we were going to die’: Delta passenger shaken by Pearson crash landing
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Nate Richie, who was on the Delta flight that crash landed in Toronto, says in a new interview with Global News that incident has left him shaken.
Nate Richie’s plane ride last week to Toronto was “uneventful” — until it wasn’t.
Richie, who was one of 76 passengers on the Delta Air Lines flight that crash landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport last week, said that incident shook him to the point where he decided it was worth the four-day drive to him Florida home rather than fly.
“The plane started wobbling and sliding sideways and that’s when I knew we were in trouble. My first thought was we’re going to slide off the runway into a field,” he told Global News.
“There was a lot of screaming, loud noise from the wing that was ripped off and exploded. … You lose track of time but my immediate thoughts went to my wife, my children, my grandchildren, my mom.”
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada continues to lead the investigation into the cause of Delta’s Endeavor Flight 4819 crash, which happened in the afternoon on Feb. 18.
All 76 passengers and four crew members survived when the plane, arriving from Minneapolis, skidded on the tarmac and burst into flames.
Richie told Global News there was “a lot of confusion” inside the cabin at that time.
“We were obviously inverted. We’re hanging upside down in our seats. … The only thing you could do was to release your seatbelt and drop,” he said.
When found, all five individuals were suffering from hypothermia and had been unable to continue their trek.
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