Passengers Miraculously Survive Air France Crash

World | August 3, 2005, Wednesday // 00:00
Passengers Miraculously Survive Air France Crash Emergency fire crews focus on tail section of crashed Air France jet. The plane burst into flames at Toronto's Pearson airport, but all 309 people aboard survived in what officials have called a "miracle". Photo by CBC

An Air France plane burst into flames at Toronto's Pearson airport, but all 309 people aboard survived in what officials have called a "miracle". Flight 358 from Paris burned for more than two hours after the crash landing in bad weather at 1603 (2003 GMT), BBC reported. "We were really, really scared the plane would blow up," passenger Olivier Dubois told a Canadian TV station. Some 24 people aboard the plane have been treated for minor injuries.

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