A flight attendant on the Air Canada Express plane that crashed into a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport Sunday was found alive on the tarmac after being ejected meters away — and still attached to her seat.
“It's nothing short of a miracle,” Sarah Lepine, the daughter of the flight attendant Solange Tremblay, told Montreal-based news outlet TVA Nouvelles. Lepine said that her mother was the lead flight attendant on the aircraft, placing her in close proximity to the pilots' cabin that was torn apart in the accident. Both aviators died.
Lepine said she spoke to her mother Monday morning, who recounted being ejected “more than a hundred meters from the plane.”
“She was still strapped to her seat” when reached by first responders, Lepine told TVA. Tremblay broke her leg in several places and will need surgery, but she is “in good spirits,” Lepine said.
“I'm still trying to figure out how all this happened,” she said. “She really had a guardian angel watching over her.”
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