103 escape after Mexican jet crashes into field
An Aeromexico jetliner taking off in a storm crashed into a field but skidded to a stop virtually intact, and all 103 people aboard were able to escape advancing flames before fire engulfed the aircraft.
Many passengers were extremely shaken after the crash, which happened on Tuesday afternoon.
“It was really, really ugly,” said Lorenzo Nunez, a passenger from Chicago who fled the plane with his two sons and wife. “It burned in a question of seconds,” he told reporters.
Survivors said that the Embraer 190 plane burst into flames right after it hit the ground.
“We felt the flames coming quickly... there was a lot of smoke,” Jaquelin Flores told the newspaper El Sol.
Romulo Campuzano, head of a political party in Durango state who was on the plane, told Foro TV that both wings were on fire as he bolted from the aircraft.
0 Red Cross and rescue teams carry an injured passenger on a stretcher while airline workers walk away from the crash near the airport in Durango