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A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010.(Agencies) |
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A Boeing 737 crash-landed Monday on a Colombian resort island during a lightning storm, scattering passengers across the runway as it split in three, but somehow only one passenger died. A 73-year-old woman suffered a heart attack and died in hospital, but officials said it was a "miracle" there were no more fatalities among the 130 survivors, most of whom suffered some kind of injury. The plane was struck by lightning 80 meters (250 feet) above the tarmac at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla airport on the Caribbean island of San Andres, aviation officials said, but the cause of the crash was still under investigation. Passengers were "literally scattered over the end of the runway," a police statement said. The authorities later put the number of injured at more than 120, five of them seriously. There were at least 16 foreigners on board the Boeing 737-300, including six French, four Brazilians, four Americans and two Costa Ricans. "We all felt the plane was arriving very, very quickly on the tarmac," 28-year-old Virginie Giroux, one of the French passengers said. "We did not feel the contact with the ground. We just saw everything flying, everything bursting in the plane." Orlando Paez Baron, director of civil security from Colombia's national police, said the pilot had briefly lost control of the aircraft but showed skill in keeping the plane on the runway. The plane, belonging to Colombia's Aires airline, left Bogota shortly after midnight and crashed in San Andres in conditions of reduced visibility about two hours later, according to air traffic controllers. San Andres's governor Pedro Gallardo said it was only good fortune that prevented there being more casualties among the 131 people on board. "We thank God for the miracle granted to this archipelago," he told national radio. "The captain, the co-pilot and all the crew are safe." (Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Web site.) (Agencies) |
本周一，一架波音737客機(jī)在哥倫比亞一個(gè)旅游海島降落時(shí)遭遇雷擊，不幸墜毀，被摔成三截，機(jī)上乘客四散在跑道上，但所幸僅有一名乘客身亡。 飛機(jī)失事后，一名73歲的老婦因心臟病發(fā)作，被送往醫(yī)院搶救無效后去世，但有關(guān)官員稱，其余130名乘客全部生還簡(jiǎn)直是個(gè)“奇跡”。大部分幸存者都受了點(diǎn)傷。 據(jù)當(dāng)?shù)睾娇詹块T官員介紹，這架客機(jī)在距離加勒比海圣安德列斯島的古斯塔沃?羅哈斯?皮尼利亞機(jī)場(chǎng)停機(jī)坪上空80米（250英尺）處遭遇雷擊，但具體的墜毀原因仍在調(diào)查之中。 哥倫比亞警方在一份聲明中稱，機(jī)上的乘客“差不多是四散在跑道的盡頭”。據(jù)有關(guān)部門統(tǒng)計(jì)，此次事故造成120多人受傷，其中5人傷勢(shì)較重。 當(dāng)天，這架波音737-300客機(jī)至少搭載了16名外國(guó)人，包括6名法國(guó)人、4名巴西人、4名美國(guó)人以及兩名哥斯達(dá)黎加人。 28歲的法國(guó)乘客維爾吉尼·吉魯說：“我們都感覺到飛機(jī)疾速地落向停機(jī)坪。” “我們沒有感覺到飛機(jī)落到了地面上，只是看到飛機(jī)里的東西四處亂飛，爆裂聲此起彼伏。” 哥倫比亞國(guó)家警察局民事安全部門負(fù)責(zé)人奧蘭多·派斯·巴倫表示，失事飛機(jī)曾一度失控，但飛行員憑借高超的技術(shù)成功避免了飛機(jī)沖出跑道。 據(jù)航空管制官員介紹，這架隸屬于哥倫比亞阿伊列斯航空公司的客機(jī)在午夜時(shí)分從波哥大起飛，兩小時(shí)后因能見度降低在圣安德列斯島墜毀。 圣安德列斯省長(zhǎng)佩德羅?加拉多稱，131名乘客中僅有一人遇難，真是幸運(yùn)。 他在接受國(guó)家電臺(tái)采訪時(shí)說：“這堪稱一個(gè)奇跡，感謝上帝。機(jī)長(zhǎng)、副駕駛和所有機(jī)組人員都安然無恙。” 相關(guān)閱讀 全日空國(guó)際航線將設(shè)女士專用衛(wèi)生間 （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯蔡姍姍） |
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Vocabulary: crash-land: to land (an aircraft) in an emergency causing damage or (of an aircraft) to land in this way（緊急降落） tarmac: a runway at an airport（停機(jī)坪） archipelago: 群島，列島 |
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