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| August 17, 2010 | All passengers except one on board miraculously survive Columbian jet crash | |
London:A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 121 passengers, including six crew members, crashed in a thunderstorm and broke into three pieces as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. Everyone onboard "miraculously"
survived the tragedy except one passenger who died of a suspected heart attack
on the way to hospital. "It was extraordinary that almost everyone survived, it
was a miracle and we have to give thanks to God," The Guardian quoted the Caribbean
island's Governor, Pedro Gallardo, as saying. Sixty-eight year-old Amar Fernandez
de Barreto, was the only passenger who died of a suspected heart attack on the
way to hospital. Dozens more were taken to the hospital for evaluation, with five
in serious condition, the paper said. The plane, owned by private company Aires,
left Bogotá shortly after midnight and was descending into San Andres, a Caribbean
resort off Nicaragua's coast, at 1.49 am when the accident took place. Orlando
Paez, a national police general called the incident "a miracle," and added that
the skill of the pilot kept the plane from sliding off the runway. The engines
of the aircraft shut down on impact. "We tried to get out of the plane because
it was starting to shoot flames. In a few minutes, a police patrol arrived and
helped us. It was "a miracle of God," Ricardo Ramirez, a survivor of the accident,
said. |
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