Air Canada crash : Plane propeller slices into window, hits passenger

A passenger on an Air Canada flight suffered a head injury and was rushed to the hospital when a propeller came lose and cut through the cabin, ABC News reported on Sunday.

Christina Kurylo was flying from Calgary to Grande Prairie when a tire exploded during take off, causing the plane to crash land in Edmonton on Thursday.

“I’m really lucky. It could have been a million times worse,” Ms Kurylo told Global News. “I could have died, you know, you never know what could have happened.”

The plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Edmonton International Airport, Canada, as the winds were too strong for the plane to turn back to Calgary.

Photo shows the propeller of flight forced to land in #yeg crashed through window: http://t.co/pGPb2wzGfr pic.twitter.com/8Hf0HFn9T5

— CTV Edmonton (@ctvedmonton) November 9, 2014

Ms Kurylo was one of four people taken to hospital after the plane skidded on the tarmac during the emergency landing, causing one of its propellers to slam into the fuselage as the aircraft tipped over onto one side.

One passenger described how the whole inside of the plane blew out causing fiberglass to be embedded into Ms Kurylo’s skin, before a huge purple lump appeared on her head after she was hit by the propellor.

A total of 71 passengers with five air crew were on the flight bound for Grand Prairie. The three other injured people were released from the University of Alberta Hospital with minor injuries on Friday morning.

Jazz Aviation said the remaining passengers and crew were evaluated by medical responders on the scene and released. The incident is being investigated.

An Edmonton International Airport spokesperson said: “The sort of least worst scenario is minor injuries like this, so we’re certainly very happy to be in a position that there are no worse injuries than that.”

Agencies/Canadajournal