Passenger on flipped Delta jet in Toronto recalls being upside down, 'hanging from our seat belts'
A passenger aboard the Delta flight that flipped upside down in a crash-landing in Toronto on Monday recalled how within seconds of the wheels touching down, his body was turned fully sideways and he and other passengers were left dangling by their seat belts.
A passenger aboard the Delta flight that flipped upside down in a crash-landing in Toronto on Monday recalled how within seconds of the wheels touching down, his body was turned fully sideways and he and other passengers were left dangling by their seat belts.
Pete Koukov recorded video of the moment he and other passengers were shuffled out through the emergency exit of the flipped plane onto the tarmac covered in patches of snow at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
"I didn’t really notice anything wrong until the moment we hit the ground," Koukov said on the "TODAY" show Tuesday morning. "The wheels touched down ... I was in the window seat on the lookers left side, and then all of a sudden, I just remember being fully sideways."
"I was looking down and just seeing like sparks and flames and whatever was grinding against the ground. It happened pretty dang quick and we were just upside down, hanging from our seat belts," he recalled.
Delta Air Lines said 21 injured passengers were initially transported to local hospitals, and as of Tuesday morning 19 have been released. There were no fatalities in the landing of Flight 4819, that carried 80 people 76 passengers and four crew members, Delta said.
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