A Colorado family of five, including three children, survived the at San Francisco International Airport.
“We were all bouncing all over the place,” .
“I just remember there being dust everywhere, and I was freaking out, and then it just stopped.
“So after everything stopped and then realized I was alive, and I looked over and I saw my brother and sister — they were both fine,” Esther Jang said. “And then I looked over, and my mom and my dad and they were both on the floor because their seats fell down. And then I called their names out and they both like moaned kind of.”
The family trip to South Korea, the first time for the children — Esther, 13-year-old Joseph and 11-year-old Sarah — ended in disaster as the tail end of the Boeing 777 clipped a sea wall and the commercial jet ripped apart, skidding across a runway.
The family, seated in the rear of the plane, accounted for each other as they realized what had happened.
“I was also calling out for my parents and I was, well, I couldn’t breathe … ’cause I got the wind knocked out of me, so I couldn’t breathe for a couple of seconds,” Joseph Jang said.
Others on board helped them get out of the wrecked jet.
“And then I realized that I was limping (and) … their exit did not have a slide. So then a flight attendant brought me to another exit, which had a slide, which was on the opposite side of the plane.”
The family has been released from a San Francisco hospital, .
