Thai plane crash: Survivors' stories by Delia Cruceru

The official death toll of the plane that crashed Sunday in Phuket is 89. The Public Health Ministry announced that 38 survivors of the flight are now safe from harm and described their conditions as "stable" and other six will remain in the intensive care unit. Survivors speak with horror about the moments that passed and almost got them killed. Robert Borland remembers how he stood on the jet's floor with his trousers aflame: "Everything was upside down, or at least it felt that way," said Borland, recalling the screaming and fire. "My clothes caught fire, my trousers." One man dressed in a yellow shirt managed to pull him to a safety spot on the wing. Most of the dead passengers were found trapped to their seats, either knocked unconscious by the impact of the failed landing, suffocated by noxious fumes, or consumed by the flames that quickly spread through the plane. A young waitress from Prince George, British Columbia Mildred Anne Furlong said that the smoke was everywhere and flames were where the cabin used to be. She remembers that a man kicked the emergency exit until it opened, saving a lot of the people from the plane. "If it wasn't for him, nobody would have got out," Mildred said.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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