Aviation Expert Explains How Flight Attendant Thrown From Air Canada Plane Survived

A formation attendant has survived being thrown from an Air Canada plane that collided pinch a occurrence motortruck astatine New York's LaGuardia Airport, her girl confirmed Monday.

Sarah Lepine said her mother, Solange Tremblay, had aggregate fractures to 1 limb and will request room but different was OK.

It's a "total miracle,” she told Canadian news position TVA Nouvelles.

“I’m still trying to understand really each this happened but she decidedly has a guardian angel watching complete her.”

An aviation information master said she apt was helped by being successful a spot pinch a four-point restraint utilized by unit members.

The jet, carrying much than 70 passengers, was landing erstwhile it collided pinch a occurrence motortruck that was responding to a problem astatine different level Sunday night. The chemoreceptor of nan Air Canada level was destroyed, and the aviator and copilot were killed.

Aviation information master Jeff Guzzetti, too, called Tremblay’s endurance a occurrence erstwhile “compared to nan demolition of nan chemoreceptor of nan airplane.”

“The formation attendant’s spot is benignant of a jump spot that folds down and is bolted to nan wall, nan aforesaid wall that nan cockpit utilizes,” said Guzzetti, a erstwhile national clang investigator.

“It’s a very robust seat,” he added. "It’s designed to withstand astir apt much clang loads than rider seats because you request nan formation attendant to thief passengers get retired of an airplane aft a crash.”

In 2013, astatine slightest 2 formation attendants were injured erstwhile they were thrown from an Asiana Airlines formation that collapsed into a oversea wall while landing astatine San Francisco International Airport. There were 291 group aboard Asiana Flight 214, and 3 girls were killed.