Wednesday 22 June 2022 04:32 PM Passenger on Dominican airline flight recalls terrifying moments aircraft ... trends now
Passenger onboard a Dominican airline plane that crashed landed at Miami Airport on Tuesday recalls terrifying moments when the aircraft burst into flames.
'We were bumping like side to side and all the windows like, break,' passenger Paola Garcia told Wesh 2 news.
'Everything's fine and then people start running and running and running. And I like jump and I start running because it was fire and all that, and I thought it was going to explode,' she said.
Garcia was one of more than 100 passengers that immediately fled the plane after its landing gear failed upon touchdown - she earlier told CBS News she thought she was 'going to die.'
New footage has emerged showing the terrifying moment passengers begin exiting the plane in panic.
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Passenger Paola Garcia recalls running off the plane after the crash landing. Garcia said she thought the plane was 'going to explode'
A passenger calmly exited the aircraft on an evacuation slide while others onboard screamed and shrieked in the background
Footage shows crew members helping passengers evacuate the flaming aircraft through an emergency exit
The video taken by a passenger as he escaped the aircraft through an emergency exit and down an evacuation slide shows crew members aiding in the crisis as some people shout to exit the plane and shriek in horror.
The footage shows smoke coming from the exterior back end of the plane while some passengers walk to safety.
The aircraft ripped through a small building and a communications tower while skidding on its belly across the tarmac before bursting into flames.
Smoke covered the exterior back end of the plane as passengers fled onto the runway to safety
'The wheel on the left side, it blow away, and we felt like the airplane go to the left
