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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna
From the Associate Press:
Authorities don't yet know what caused an arriving passenger jet to burst into flames at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. A witness in Toronto says ``everything looked good'' -- before the Air France jet cracked in half.
Thick smoke continues to burn from the Airbus, after the jet skidded off the runway while trying to land in a storm. A passenger told Canada's C-T-V that he saw lightning strikes as the plane tried to land.
A Toronto Fire Services spokesman tells C-N-N some people have been taken to hospitals, but he didn't have details on their conditions. A Toronto radio station (A-M 680) quotes emergency workers as saying most of the 252 people on board are safe. The station reported there were two explosions on the plane, and that a police official says two groups of passengers had been evacuated.
Rescue crews continue showering the jet with water as it burns next to Canada's busiest highway.
The Air France flight was arriving from Paris.
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If they got 252 people off of that plane and they are safe, I think we all need to say a prayer of thanks because that indeed is a miracle.
I fly all of the time and though there are exits on the plane, most of the time, you have to crawl over a seat to get to them. Plus, imagine how cray a scene it would be in the smoke filled dark cabin. Maybe the plane broke in two and people were able to just run out of the cracks in the fuselage.
The whole thing is just terrifying to me.