Vancouver couple recounts bumpy landing with Flair Airlines plane at Ontario airport
CTV
Vancouver couple Charissa Landicho and Mac Bradley just wanted a quick and cheap getaway, but a turbulent landing was not on their itinerary.
Vancouver couple Charissa Landicho and Mac Bradley just wanted a quick and cheap getaway, but a turbulent landing was not on their itinerary.
"I was definitely in shock because it was an overnight flight. I woke up, just, 'What's going on?'" Landicho said.
"We touched down and we could hear a loud thud. And it lifted up and it (went) down again," she recalled.
It was a frightening experience for the 134 passengers on the Flair Airlines Boeing 737, which went off the runway just before 6:30 a.m. Friday morning in southern Ontario.
The flight from Vancouver was landing at the Kitchener-Waterloo airport when it overshot the runway and ended up in the grass.
"To me, it felt like we pulled right and then next thing you know, we're off the tarmac, in the field pretty much, bouncing around, smacking around," said Bradley.
"We probably went like 50 to 100 metres off the runway," he continued.
