{"id":48168,"date":"2026-03-23T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-was-on-the-air-canada-flight-that-crashed-at-laguardia-i-felt-the-plane-lose-control-and-i-ducked-and-prayed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:11:14","slug":"i-was-on-the-air-canada-flight-that-crashed-at-laguardia-i-felt-the-plane-lose-control-and-i-ducked-and-prayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-was-on-the-air-canada-flight-that-crashed-at-laguardia-i-felt-the-plane-lose-control-and-i-ducked-and-prayed\/","title":{"rendered":"I was on the Air Canada flight that crashed at LaGuardia. I felt the plane lose control, and I ducked and prayed."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69c19e5ce98a37a4841f2cb7?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Standing beside a desk, a young man looks to the side next to a tablet.\"\/><figcaption>Jack Cabot was on Air Canada Flight AC8646 to LaGuardia Airport when it crashed upon landing.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Jack Cabot<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>22-year-old Jack Cabot was on Air Canada Flight AC8646 during a crash landing on March 22.<\/li>\n<li>Cabot is grateful he was not badly injured in the collision.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the crash, Cabot plans to fly again, believing it will help him overcome the trauma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jack Cabot, a 22-year-old student at Ithaca College. The following has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On March 22, I was coming back to New York from a short spring break trip to Calgary. My connecting flight back was through Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few moments of pretty bad turbulence in the air, but nothing crazy happened until the landing. That&#039;s when everything went pretty haywire. The plane landed quite hard, and then two or three seconds later, I heard a really loud bang.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Everybody was terrified as the plane lost control<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Everyone already seemed pretty annoyed when we boarded the flight to New York because it had already been delayed a few times. We left about two hours after our original departure time.<\/p>\n<p>As we were landing, the plane started veering right really quickly. It felt like it had completely lost control. I put my head down, ducked between my arms, and prayed. There was a lot of screaming; everybody was terrified, and I was completely panicked.<\/p>\n<p>When we finally came to a stop, I thought, &quot;Okay, we&#039;re somehow alive.&quot; As I looked around, so many people were bleeding. One guy&#039;s whole face was gashed up. It was clear that a lot of people were very hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I was sitting in the middle area of the plane, a row in front of the emergency exit. When I looked toward the front of the plane, it seemed to have completely crumpled inward, like a wall of broken parts.<\/p>\n<p>A woman behind me suggested we go out the emergency exit. I didn&#039;t think the plane was a good place to be, so we all got in a line and headed out one by one. It wasn&#039;t too big a plane, so we jumped onto the wing and then took another 4- or 5-foot drop onto the ground.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>I feel grateful and lucky<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It took two or three minutes for medical attention to arrive. I was only a little bruised up, but others were more seriously hurt. I feel really grateful and lucky.<\/p>\n<p>After we got off the plane, we sat on a bus for three to four hours, then waited in a lounge. They were performing headcounts of the people there. I chose to talk with the police about what I saw, and I got out of the airport at around 4:30 a.m., even though we landed at around 11:30 p.m. My brother, whom I texted after we landed, picked me up from the airport. I got home around an hour later and went straight to bed.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>I&#039;m still planning to fly<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I&#039;ll be a little reluctant next time I have to get on a plane, but I&#039;ll have to get over it. It would be really shocking if something like this happened twice.<\/p>\n<p>To recover from what happened, I think I&#039;ll need a few days of relaxation and some exposure therapy. I actually think flying more will help me get past this.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Cabot was on Air Canada Flight AC8646 to LaGuardia Airport when it crashed upon landing. Courtesy of Jack Cabot 22-year-old Jack Cabot was on Air Canada Flight AC8646 during a crash landing on March 22. Cabot is grateful he was not badly injured in the collision. 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