Air France flight crashed in YYZ
Aug 2, 2005, 3:24 pm
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Originally Posted by YOWkid
Who is saying this?
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(CBS/AP) An Air France passenger jet skidded off a runway and burst into flames at Toronto's Pearson airport on Tuesday, police said.
CBS reports there were no fatalities and 241 passengers aboard were evacuated.
CBS Radio reports that Air France Flight 358 left Paris at 1:32pm local time and was supposed to land at 4:12pm in Toronto.
Aug 2, 2005, 3:25 pm
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New Eyewitness now on CTV...saying she saw a fork of lightning hit something (wasn't sure it was a plane), then 30 seconds after that, through the billowing smoke everywhere, they could see a plane.
She's also saying that she saw flames on the runway.
She's also saying that she saw flames on the runway.
Aug 2, 2005, 3:25 pm
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MSN.com has live video and little else one can say looking at it than OMG and to pray for those on board. Hard to imagine people walking away from tht, but if they did that flight crew is owed one huge amount of praise.
Maybe a major hiway crash would make things better?
Aug 2, 2005, 3:26 pm
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Originally Posted by kpalle
New Eyewitness now on CTV...saying she saw a fork of lightning hit something (wasn't sure it was a plane), then 30 seconds after that, through the billowing smoke everywhere, they could see a plane.
She's also saying that she saw flames on the runway.
She's also saying that she saw flames on the runway.
Aug 2, 2005, 3:28 pm
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From this article on thestar.com: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...2154&t=TS_Home
According to Lee Romanov, who was interviewed on CP24 after receiving a phone call from a friend who was on the plane, the jet made a big drop in altitude before coming in for a very rough landing.
Romanow said passengers exited the plane on emergency chutes.
According to Lee Romanov, who was interviewed on CP24 after receiving a phone call from a friend who was on the plane, the jet made a big drop in altitude before coming in for a very rough landing.
Romanow said passengers exited the plane on emergency chutes.
Aug 2, 2005, 3:34 pm
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CTV now showing pictures of the fire from 1635 est, and it appears that the fire was in the last 1/3 of the plane (near where the tail meets the plane). Also fire coming from where the wings meet the plane.