Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo has asked the United States National Transportation Safety Board to assist in investigating why a Caribbean Airlines flight overshot a rainy runway, and crash-landed after departing from JFK airport on Friday evening. No one was killed in the crash, and according to the Post the worst injuries sustained were "a broken leg, bumps, cuts and bruises."
Gary Rozario, a Richmond Hill Queens native who was visiting family, told the Daily News that his 7-year-old daughter screamed "Daddy! Daddy! I don't want to die!" as the flight hit the ground with a "bone-chilling boom." Rozario says that at the time, "All I was thinking was that me and my daughter could die right now. People were screaming 'Oh my God! Oh my God!'" Because no emergency workers were at the site of the crash, "There was no chute coming from the plane, everyone had to jump. People broke their legs. Everyone was screaming, scrambling, cursing at each other to get off the plane."
Rozario ended up walking two miles carrying his daughter to the airport terminal. "She doesn't want to go back on a plane to New York. I'm scared too, but I can't let her know that." We'll try and keep this story in mind the next time someone infuriates us by putting their seat back to crush our knees.
