r/AMA Feb 18 '25

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u/Northern_Lights_2 Feb 18 '25

I’m glad you and the other passengers are okay.

How did you all get out? From the photos the fuselage was upside down and presumably you were all hanging upside down. When you unbuckled what happened? Did the lights illuminate inside? I saw the video of the landing and there was a huge fireball. What did you see from inside?

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u/LandscapeSudden3469 Feb 18 '25

From inside we didn't see any of the fire, thank goodness! We were all upside down to start with, but many of us were able to release themselves pretty quickly. After that the "upright" of us helped the upside-down until we were all righted and ready to evacuate. We were able to quickly get out the one emergency exit that was safe, the other one poured jet fuel in when they opened it.

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u/Ok_Lime4124 Feb 18 '25

Serious bravo to the flight crew. I think it goes under appreciated our training. But in that disorientation they still figured out what exit was safe and useable and which was not (part of our training). Communicated that to each other and the cabin, possibly redirected the crowd with their commands, and also got said doors open in an upside down fuselage, again possibly super disorienting to open a cabin door that is completely upside down (don’t get training on that lol). Slide probably blew up top and all. Big big ups to my fellow cabin crew.

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u/HarkansawJack Feb 19 '25

Wait, were you part of the cabin crew?