‘I thought we were going to die’: Tampa woman recalls escaping burning plane

DENVER, Colo. (WFLA) — A terrifying scene unfolded as an American Airlines flight erupted in flames after landing in Denver .

A Tampa Bay woman who was on board American Airlines flight 1006 from Colorado Springs to Dallas described the chaos, fear and the desperate fight to escape.

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“I was extremely nervous and scared, and I really thought that the plane was going to blow up and we were going to die,” passenger Marisol Cohen said. Cohen said the plane was already in the air when the flight attendant made an alarming announcement. “We were having some rattling in the engine,” Cohen said. “So they were going to divert the flight to Denver so that they can get a new plane or fix the rattling.” But as soon as the plane touched down, chaos erupted.

“Someone in the plane screamed fire, which was the worst thing that could have happened because everybody lost control,” Cohen said…

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