A woman who survived the upside-down crash of a Delta Air Lines flight shared harrowing clips of the incident online.
“I’m upside down,” the terrified passenger, Ashley Zook, said.
Ashley was aboard the Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 that crash-landed at Canada’sToronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, February 17.
Viewers were shocked to see the aircraft overturned on the snow-swept runway.
The flight, operated by the airline’s subsidiary Endeavor Air, had taken off from Minneapolis and found itself belly-up after landing in Toronto at about 2:15 p.m.
Ashley was one of the 76 passengers and four crew members who miraculously survived the plane crash. Eighteen people suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
While still inside the flipped plane, Ashley managed to capture herself strapped to her airline seat.
Image credits: Ian Crowder
“My plane crashed,” read the text over her social media story. “I’m upside down.”
She went on to post several videos on Snapchat, capturing her fellow survivors spilling out of the upside-down aircraft.
“Oh my God. I was just in a plane crash,” the shaken passenger said as she laid eyes on the wreckage.
It is currently unclear what caused the plane to topple and catch fire.
“My plane crashed,” read the text of Ashley Zook’s post. “I’m upside down”
Image credits: CBC
Image credits: CBC
Another startled passenger, John Nelson, shared a video of passengers fumbling out of the aircraft as fire crews acted quickly to douse the flames.
Describing it as a “typical flight” from Minneapolis to Toronto, John said the “runways were in kind of a weird condition.”
“When we hit, it was super hard,” the passenger told CNN. “We hit the ground and the plane went sideways and I believe we skidded on our side and flipped over on our back.”