Holy heck! No one died in that plane crash yesterday!

[Rabrrrrrr]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/03/toronto.crash.ap/index.html

Air France said 22 people were injured, while Toronto airport officials said 43 were hurt. The wreckage of the jetliner smoldered Wednesday near a busy highway in what a Paris newspaper called "The miracle of the Air France Airbus."

The evacuation of more than 300 people took less than two minutes, with a co-pilot the last to leave the flaming wreckage, airport Fire Chief Mike Figliola said.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. If I were a passenger, I would start buying lottery tickets.

[Justitia]

2. And that was our ONLY bright spot of news yesterday.

I was very surprised, happy & relieved for those people and their families.

My hubby travels via plane constantly and I had such sympathy for them all.

Thank whatever deity or force of fate you choose!

[auntAgonist]

3. amazing! And such good work by

the crew. Handling things the way they did, saved lives.

[Aristus]

4. The Freepers are probably all thinking: "Dang! No Frenchers 'r'

Canadians kilt! Sheeeee-it! Whut a wasted crash!"

Fuck 'em!

Thank God no one was killed, I say.

[LynzM]

5. I heard that this morning, great news!

309 people, and they all got out alive. Good for the crew, and for the people for doing what they were supposed to!

[XemaSab]

6. Those things are suprisingly resiliant

airdisaster.com was not loading for me this morning, but snopes had a page about this one plane crash.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/mandarin.asp



"This is a genuine photograph depicting the aftermath of Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 from Bangkok to Hong Kong, which crashed upon landing on 22 August 1999. The plane, an MD-11, encountered a 24-knot crosswind coincident with Typhoon Sam and came down too hard on its right side, causing the No. 3 engine to hit the runway and the right wing to separate from the fuselage. The MD-11 rolled over and slid off the runway upside down, bursting into flame and grinding to a halt on a grassy area adjacent to the runway.

Remarkably, there were only three fatalities among of the 300 passengers and 15 crew members aboard the flight."