Rory
09-17-07, - 03:08 AM
A 23-year-old B.C. woman said she escaped through a window as smoke and flames filled an airplane that crashed in southern Thailand on Sunday, killing most aboard.
"The guys behind me kicked in their window," Mildred Anne Furlong of Prince George, one of about 39 survivors, told CBC Newsworld from the Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
"Smoke was coming in and you thought you were going to pass out. Flames were spreading."
Officials said 91 people died after the aircraft, operated by the low-cost One-Two-Go airline, crashed while attempting to land in stormy weather at the resort city of Phuket. The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane, owned by Orient-Thai Airlines, split into two parts and burst into flames.
It was carrying 130 passengers, many of them foreign tourists. Furlong said she believes she may have been the only Canadian on board and was definitely one of few lucky ones — among perhaps a half-dozen people who escaped with only minor injuries.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/09/16/thai-crash-canadian.html
"The guys behind me kicked in their window," Mildred Anne Furlong of Prince George, one of about 39 survivors, told CBC Newsworld from the Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
"Smoke was coming in and you thought you were going to pass out. Flames were spreading."
Officials said 91 people died after the aircraft, operated by the low-cost One-Two-Go airline, crashed while attempting to land in stormy weather at the resort city of Phuket. The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane, owned by Orient-Thai Airlines, split into two parts and burst into flames.
It was carrying 130 passengers, many of them foreign tourists. Furlong said she believes she may have been the only Canadian on board and was definitely one of few lucky ones — among perhaps a half-dozen people who escaped with only minor injuries.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/09/16/thai-crash-canadian.html