Survivors recall frantic escape 20 years after Air France crash in Toronto
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Eddie Ho and Lisa Platt were both under 20 at the time their Air France flight crashed in Toronto back in 2005. Twenty years later, the two are reflecting on that harrowing moment.
Lisa Platt was returning to Toronto with a French exchange student on Air France flight 358 on Aug. 2, 2005.
At 15, Platt hadn’t travelled by air very much at that point and was enjoying the trip.
“We were all excited, wearing headphones, listening to the same music. It was a great day,” said Platt.
Eddie Ho, age 19, was a business student from South Africa attending Queen’s University in Kingston. He also said the trip from Paris was memorable.
“The service was great, the food was great, it was actually a very enjoyable flight,” Ho said.
But it was a flight that ended with the plane going up in flames after a disastrous landing, even though it initially appeared to passengers that the pilots would be able to stop on the runway 24L at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
“I felt a huge impact like you were on a roller-coaster,” said Platt.
“The plane was making its way down the runway and everybody started clapping. Nobody knew what was going to happen after that,” said Ho.
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