Propeller in plane window - A Canadian radio station employee has been hurt in the head after one of the propellers of the Air Canada Jazz aircraft she was riding in this past week Thursday got dislodged and struck the fuselage of the Bombadier Q-400 plane during an emergency landing at the Edmonton International Airport.
Christina Kurylo, was one of 75 other people aboard the flight when the propeller tore into the plane's window. At least three other passengers were treated for minor injuries, but Kurylo was the most affected.
"I am really lucky. It could have been a million times worse," she told Canada's Global News."I could have died, you know, you never know what could have happened."
Kurylo was also one of five employees of Rock 97.7 radio station aboard the Air Canada Jazz flight when the propeller cut into the plane's window and fuselage.
"The propeller, obviously that didn't hit her, but the whole wall of the plane blew out so she had fiberglass and everything embedded in her skin," Melissa Menard, one of Kurylo's colleagues who was also aboard the flight, revealed.
Kurylo is reported to have been seated on the seventh row of the flight, which was heading from Calgary to Grand Prairie on Thursday. The pilot had reportedly announced that one of the plane's tires had burst during takeoff at Calgary and that he needed to make an emergency landing at Edmonton. It was while the pilot was attempting to bring the plane down without one of its tires that somehow the propeller cut into the plane's window and fuselage.
"All of a sudden, something came crashing through my window and I got hit in the head," Kurylo revealed. She has pinned her survival to divine intervention and described the incident as a "wild experience."
Airline officials have opened an investigation into how the propeller cut into the plane's window and fuselage. Reports indicate that the plane's engines are being assessed and it could be back in service soon. Air traffic controllers at the Calgary airport and the flight crew of the Q-400 plane are also set to be interviewed.
The Bombadier Q-400 has been at the center of many takeoff and landing incidents in the past. But an official of Air Canada Jazz has assured the public that 'there's nothing to worry about.'
