Georgetown: Four passengers on the Fly Jamaica OJ256 Toronto-bound flight which crashed on emergency landing Friday morning have sustained injuries to their neck, shoulders, ribs and legs.
Just around 03:00hrs on Friday morning the plane of 118 in returning to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) just moments after takeoff due to ‘hydraulic issues’ crashed into a fence off the runway coming to a halt at heap of sand.
“We were panicked. When I was sitting down one of the doors from the overhead compartments fell and hit me and several other people on the head, on the neck. Then we were all running with speed and in excitement in the plane to catch the door to get out because there was smoke. My ribs are squished up from pushing and my neck, my hands, my shoulder and foot muscles are killing me. We had to come out and walk in the sand. We had to walk about a mile from there to catch the terminals. It was very frustrating and at that time we did anything to survive. I can’t remember seeing [the two infants] because it was very confusing at that time,” 55-year-old Davanan Sukhram told the media.
Injured too was 62-year old ‘Babs’ Curry who, seated in a wheel chair,
recounted her experience as one of fear and chaos where several persons lost
items they had on them at the time.
“It was terrible. Before we left they said that there was a problem with the door so we stayed there for a while, maybe half an hour and they fixed it. After that the plane took off and when we got about 20 minutes in the air we started to hear this noise like a big growling.
He [the pilot] said he was going to come back because it wasn’t safe for us because we’re going to go over water so he decided to come back and said it’s going to take 20 minutes to get back. When we got back the landing was terrible. I don’t know what happened. We started screaming and everything when coming down we heard this growling noise and this grazing on the sand. There was smoke and we had to slide down the emergency slide. Some people lost their shoes; [my friend] glasses fell out.
“It was chaos, there was no light. I took my phone and I tried to find my way among others,” he said
The captain of the ill-fated Fly Jamaica Airlines jet that made an emergency landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport alleged that several personal items were stolen from the plane, police said.
Meanwhile, law enforcement said at least nine fire fighters were being questioned by investigators in connection with the reported theft.
The pilot reported losing cash and electronic devices. He said one of the fire fighters surrendered items and then the theft began unravelling. He said other items were found at the Timehri Fire Station. A crew member also claimed her items were stolen.
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