
Air Canada crew flung 100 metres from plane when it hit truck. She survived
India Today
Thrown over 100 metres, still strapped to her seat, she lived. As details emerge from the LaGuardia crash that killed two pilots, a chilling account and haunting audio raise troubling questions.
In a moment that should have been unsurvivable, a flight attendant was hurled more than 100 metres from a crashing aircraft, and lived to tell the tale.
The woman, identified as Solange Tremblay, was still strapped to her seat when rescuers found her after an Air Canada Express flight collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport, in a crash that killed both pilots and left several others injured.
“It’s a complete miracle,” her daughter Sarah Lpine was quoted as saying by Quebec’s TVA News. “At the moment of impact, her seat was ejected more than 100 metres from the plane. They found her and she was still strapped into her seat.”
“She had a guardian angel watching over her. It could have been much worse.”
The CRJ-900 jet, operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck as it came in to land, triggering a catastrophic sequence that tore through the aircraft.
Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed in the crash. Nine others were taken to hospital with injuries, including Tremblay, who suffered multiple fractures and required surgery for a broken leg.













