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A hail storm destroys a plane flying from Santiago de Chile to Asunción and terrifies its 48 passengers

2022-10-28T00:51:26.402Z


“My seatbelt came undone and I screamed for someone to help me. I couldn't do it alone, because I had my daughter in my arms," ​​said one of the passengers on flight 1325 of the LATAM airline, which made an emergency landing with a single engine and the front part undone.


A strong hailstorm caused damage to a LATAM airline plane that was traveling this Wednesday from Santiago de Chile to Asunción (Paraguay), terrifying the 48 passengers on board

and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing.

The passengers of flight 1325 shared images on social networks that portray the tense minutes they lived on board the aircraft, which landed in Brazil

without an engine, with a broken windshield

, a broken fuselage door (in the body of the plane) and the smashed front.

The plane made an emergency landing at the Foz do Iguazú international airport at 06:43 pm (local time).

The airline cited "severe weather conditions," according to Chile's Emol news site.

"

It was the most terrifying thing in my life

," said former Paraguayan model Pabla Tholem, one of the passengers.

"While everyone was panicking, my seatbelt came undone and I screamed for someone to help me. I couldn't do it alone, because I had my daughter in my arms, holding her tight."

“A man came to help me and my baby clung to him.

I started vomiting," said Tholem, who claimed to have suffered a panic attack.

The ship remained two hours in Brazil, without the passengers being able to disembark.

According to the airline, weather conditions improved and the aircraft resumed its flight to its final destination.

The landing in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, occurred at 11:09 pm (local time), according to a statement from LATAM.

"The plane landed without an engine and with tears in the windshield," confirmed Félixa Kanazawa, president of the Civil Aeronautical Directorate of Paraguay, according to the newspaper El País.

Kanawaza added that these types of ships "are prepared to fly with a single engine."

The director of Airports, Douglas Cubilla, said that the "front part was destroyed".

Panic attacks in the air

A video shared on social networks by one of the passengers shows how the plane shakes strongly.

In the background you can hear the screams of fright of the people.

"Please, Holy God, how barbaric," a man is heard saying.

According to passenger Pabla Tholem, when they landed, “the stewardesses began to shout in English, then they began to slow down and then we could breathe.

All the passengers who were there were

shot

."

The front part of the plane was destroyed.

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Marcial Gómez, another passenger, told Emol that the most difficult part was not the forced landing but passing through the core of the hail storm.

"The issue of the emergency landing was because we were already going down with the damaged plane, when we had already descended from the ugly part and were approaching the runway, going down with one engine," he explained.

"

I don't wish it on anyone

," added Gomez, who also assured that the captain had told them that the weather was going to be "beautiful" when they boarded the plane.

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LATAM Airlines said the passengers and crew arrived in Paraguay "in good condition" and were treated immediately.

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The General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics of Chile indicated that during the landing all the security protocols established for crew and passengers were applied.

The National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics of Paraguay said that it will carry out an investigation into the air incident.

LATAM, according to the aforementioned media, assured that "it is collaborating with the investigation that the competent authorities are developing on the incident."

Source: telemundo

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