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Delta Crash Passenger Nate Richie Gives Play-By-Play On Wreck From Inside Plane
TMZ
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2/21/2025
He gives us a play-by-play account of the doomed landing ... and says he thought his life was over when he was hanging upside down in the plane with jet fuel wafting through the air and running down the windows.
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The flight was really uneventful. I don't remember any turbulence. I was just reading a book, you know, enjoying the flight.
00:10
As we were coming in for a landing, you know, I put my book by my side and started talking to the gentleman sitting next to me.
00:18
And there was no indication of any issues, which really probably were not any issues at that time.
00:24
But once we hit the runway, we hit really hard. And, you know, I've been on planes that hit hard before, it kind of jolts you a little bit.
00:32
But this time it was different because once it hit, you could feel the plane start wobbling and start to slide sideways.
00:42
I remember thinking, we're not staying on the runway, and I looked out my window.
00:46
And I remember just thinking, there's a lot more snow on this runway than what I would expect.
00:52
And, you know, and all this is taking place obviously in split seconds.
00:57
And at that time, the plane started to roll over.
01:02
And it was just loud, you know, screaming, crying, you know, you'd hear the boom.
01:12
And it was almost like a very surreal time.
01:19
I remember seeing, you know, things flying around as I was slammed between the side of the plane and the gentleman next to me.
01:27
That seemed to go on for quite some time until we came to a stop.
01:33
And at that point, we were inverted.
01:36
And so we're all dangling from our seats.
01:39
We had the seatbelts.
01:41
And we had to, there's only one way, Devin, to get down.
01:45
That was to release your buckle and to fall onto what was previously the ceiling is now the floor.
01:53
At this point, Devin, the smell of the jet fuel was so strong.
01:59
And you could see it running down the windows of the plane and pooling up outside the plane.
02:05
And it's at that moment that I was pretty sure we were going to die, that this was it, that we were not going to escape this crash.
02:15
So eventually, the doors were opened, and we were able to start exiting the plane.
02:20
And just one by one, getting off the plane, you know, the whole time just praying and thinking about my wife, my kids, if I could see them again.
02:33
Just not knowing how this was going to end.
02:38
Almost off the plane, I remember stopping and looking at the plane and saying, this isn't normal.
02:48
This isn't normal.
02:49
It's really cold, 10 degrees, 15.
02:52
I don't know what it was out there.
02:54
It was freezing.
02:55
We didn't have our jackets.
02:57
And we huddled around this fire truck to try to keep each other warm.
03:02
And we weren't over there very long before there was an explosion on the plane.
03:07
And appeared to be backed by the back door, which is the door I exited from.
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