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This is probably the best description of the crash that I’ve seen. As a passenger on the plane, this is probably what your experience would be like in the event of a crash.
Sorry if that’s a little morbid, but if you were to be in a plane crash, what this guy describes is probably one of the best scenarios that you’re looking at. The 1 person that died, didn’t die in the crash. They died of a heart attack en route to the hospital.
The plane was a Boeing 737-300 that was relatively new and in good shape. Since they were landing during heavy rain, I’m going to venture a guess and say a microburst down draft and/or wind shear are to blame for this accident.
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Mr Murillo Pedrosa said he and his wife are recovering in the hotel they had booked for their honeymoon on San Andres, a popular holiday destination. His wife has a broken foot and bruising to her face and body, while he escaped with a broken collarbone and 15 stitches in his forehead.
The flight, he said, had been uneventful until the approach to the island, in heavy rain, when the pilot ordered the crew to prepare for landing.
“The back wheels of the plane touched down, but on this occasion it was much harder than usual – much, much louder,” Mr Murillo Pedrosa said.
“I remember being thrown forward against the seat in front, hitting my head, and from then on the chaos started, the banging around – the plane split more or less where I was seated.”
“I remember grabbing my wife and another person next to me and everyone was screaming and crying and shouting out that the plane was going to catch fire,” he told the BBC.
“What I did was get out, walking as best I could, get us away as far as I could – 150, 200m – walking with my wife and another woman who was asking about her husband.
“I didn’t know what to tell her because I felt like I wasn’t really there, like it was a nightmare. I just walked, looked at my wife, I saw she didn’t have some of her clothes – she was barefoot – but I saw she was OK, at least she could walk, limping.”
