“Shocking Delta Flight Footage Reveals Passengers in Distress: What Really Happened During the Chaotic Landing?”
Imagine you’re settling into your seat after a smooth takeoff, feeling pretty good about your flight. Then—boom!—the next moment, the plane ends up in the snow like it’s trying to make a snow angel. Sounds like a wild plot twist straight out of a movie, right? Well, that was the startling reality for Ashley Zook and 79 other passengers aboard Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, which crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17. Ashley, ever the digital age passenger, shared her nerve-wracking experience on social media, captured while upside down in her seat, saying, “I’m upside down.” With the plane’s fate playing out on a snowy runway, and terrified passengers scrambling to safety, it’s a gripping tale of survival that raises the question—how do you handle a flight that goes completely off the rails? Buckle up, because this story is one for the books! LEARN MORE
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 had crash-landed at Canada’s Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, February 17.
Viewers were shocked to see the aircraft overturned on the snow-swept runway.
A woman who survived the “upside-dow”n crash of a Delta Air Lines flight shared harrowing clips of the incident online
Image credits: John Nelson
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.”
One passenger described the journey as a “typical flight” from Minneapolis to Toronto before the landing
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He recalled a “big fireball” on the plane’s left side.
“I was able to just unbuckle and sort of fall and push myself to the ground,” he added. “And then some people were kind of hanging and needed some help being helped down, and others were able to get down on their own.”
Fellow flyer Pete Koukov said he had no idea what happened until the aircraft touched the ground with a hard landing.
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“We hit the ground, and we were sideways, and then we were upside down hanging like bats,” he told the outlet.
After unbuckling and pushing himself to the ground, he managed to help some of his fellow travelers out of their seats before making his way out of the wreckage.
“Just feeling lucky and happy I got to give the person I didn’t know sitting next to me a big hug, that we were OK,” Pete told the outlet.
“We were upside down hanging like bats,” fellow flyer Pete Koukov said
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It was also a relief for him to see his friends, who had arrived at the airport to pick him up, and “give them a big hug,” he added.
One video captured passengers walking on the ceiling to evacuate the aircraft.
The commercial passenger jet had one wing and its tail severely damaged.
18 people were left injured, with a child and two other adults sustaining critical injuries
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Among the injured, those who sustained critical injuries included a child, a man in his 60s, and a woman in her 40s.
The child was listed to be in good condition by Monday evening after receiving medical attention from the Hospital for Sick Children.
Other passengers reportedly sustained mild injuries.
Additional CCTV Footage from Toronto Pearson International Airport has been released, showing yesterday’s crash-landing of a Delta Air Lines CRJ-900LR operated by Endeavor Air, which amazingly resulted in only 15 Injuries. pic.twitter.com/PsaJGk4BVf
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