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(CNN)Even before her plane took off, Ashley Garcia sensed danger coming.
Torrential rain was thrashing the runway. Thick gray clouds covered everything outside her passenger window.
But most terrifying was the brutal wind, which was so intense it made the wings of the plane shake.
"I was like: 'We are not about to take off. This is insane,'" the 17-year-old from Chicago said.
But Aeromexico Flight 2431 pushed forward anyway. Garcia started recording with her phone.
Seconds later, the wind "pushed us right back down, and we were just bouncing," Garcia said. The twin-engine jet struck the ground, went back up in the air, then crashed much more violently before coming to a fiery stop.
"I really thought I was not going to make it," Garcia said.
She's not the only passenger stunned that's she's alive. All 99 passengers and four crew members survived Tuesday's crash of Flight 2431, en route from Durango, Mexico, to Mexico City. Seventeen people were still receiving medical attention Thursday.
"I just grabbed my daughter and went as hard as I could," Dorelia Rivera told CNN affiliate WLS about her escape. "I honestly thought I was going to break her arm because I finally grabbed onto her hard enough and I'm like, 'I'm not letting you go.'"
As passengers swarmed toward the emergency slides, flames were shooting out from the front cabin.
But passenger Al Herrera walked away with just bruises on his arm and a passport caked with mud from the scene.
"I fell from the sky and survived," Herrera said, as he waited for a flight to take him home to Chicago. "People die when planes crash. And here I am, as a survivor, taking another plane."
more at
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/americas/aeromexico-plane-crash/index.html
Torrential rain was thrashing the runway. Thick gray clouds covered everything outside her passenger window.
But most terrifying was the brutal wind, which was so intense it made the wings of the plane shake.
"I was like: 'We are not about to take off. This is insane,'" the 17-year-old from Chicago said.
But Aeromexico Flight 2431 pushed forward anyway. Garcia started recording with her phone.
Seconds later, the wind "pushed us right back down, and we were just bouncing," Garcia said. The twin-engine jet struck the ground, went back up in the air, then crashed much more violently before coming to a fiery stop.
"I really thought I was not going to make it," Garcia said.
She's not the only passenger stunned that's she's alive. All 99 passengers and four crew members survived Tuesday's crash of Flight 2431, en route from Durango, Mexico, to Mexico City. Seventeen people were still receiving medical attention Thursday.
"I just grabbed my daughter and went as hard as I could," Dorelia Rivera told CNN affiliate WLS about her escape. "I honestly thought I was going to break her arm because I finally grabbed onto her hard enough and I'm like, 'I'm not letting you go.'"
As passengers swarmed toward the emergency slides, flames were shooting out from the front cabin.
But passenger Al Herrera walked away with just bruises on his arm and a passport caked with mud from the scene.
"I fell from the sky and survived," Herrera said, as he waited for a flight to take him home to Chicago. "People die when planes crash. And here I am, as a survivor, taking another plane."
more at
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/americas/aeromexico-plane-crash/index.html
