The plane may have been struck by lightning before crashing while landing on a runway on St Andres, a Colombian island in the Caribbean. Only four passengers had major injuries and the single fatality may have died from a heart attack. Here’s another view of the crash:
[Pics via AP]
Republished from Gawker.
Shane
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 8:42 AMSurprisingly, the major cause of death from a “landing” related crash is down to fire and suffocation (once you take out impact tumor from the equation) – if there was no fire or leaking chemicals/smoke, then it’s not surprising that so many people survived.
The fact that no one was killed from been ejected from the aircraft is also surprising, but this relates to when the aircraft started to break up.
N@
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 10:48 AMIt was probably nearly empty of fuel when it landed, so was a lot less likely to catch fire when it broke up.
Kalem
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 1:05 PMIt was lightning. At first I thought it was animal. Some kind of bird or something. But it was a man! There were flames coming out of the engine, and a flash of smoke. Maybe it was a technician who was caught on the side of the plane when it took off. How could he survive out there? The air’s so thin, the blast of the wind. It’s so cold.
Aaron Holden
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:05 PMIt wasn’t Jacob… that’s rediculous. It was because of the “rules”.