22-Year-Old Passenger Jack Cabot Stuns With His Account of What Unfolded Inside an Air Canada Plane at Laguardia – Video

Additionally, she said the airport would stay closed until at least 2:00 p.m. local time so investigators could continue processing the scene. Federal and local investigations are now underway.

A Routine Flight, Until It Wasn’t

The final seconds before touchdown were ordinary enough, and that may be what makes this story so chilling. For 22-year-old Jack Cabot, it was just another flight back from Montreal. Then, in what he later described as a “crazy 12 seconds,” everything changed.

Air Canada’s Bombardier CRJ-900 was landing at LaGuardia just before midnight when disaster struck. The aircraft collided with a Port Authority fire engine that was responding to an unrelated emergency call.

The aftermath was devastating. In addition to the plane’s two pilots being killed, and dozens of people left injured, one flight attendant was reportedly hurled 300 feet from the aircraft while still strapped into her jump seat.

In the hours that followed, details began to emerge about the collision, the frantic emergency response, and the wreckage left behind.

When the Cabin Turned Into Chaos

But for Cabot, the most unforgettable part of that night wasn’t only the impact itself…it was what happened inside the plane once the chaos fully set in.

In his Fox News interview, Cabot said the flight had seemed perfectly routine until the moment the wheels hit the ground. “It was a regular flight,” he said. “Everybody braces for impact, and there is always a little bit of sense of nervousness as any plane comes in for landing.”

Then came the instant when normal vanished: “Pretty quickly as we touched the ground, it all felt very wrong.” He said the brakes seemed to slam hard almost immediately. Then came the noise no passenger ever wants to hear.

“It was just a very loud bang,” Cabot recalled. “We all pretty much just didn’t know whether we were going to make it.” That fear hit fast and hard. Cabot compared it to “being in a gigantic car crash at 200 miles an hour,” adding bluntly, “It’s not a good spot to be in.”

And the whole thing unfolded with terrifying speed. According to him, it all happened in “three or four seconds” from landing to hitting the truck.

That split-second timeline lines up with what he told the New York Post, where he gave an even more vivid picture of those final moments.

“It felt like the landing was immediately off,” Cabot said. “There was an incredibly loud bang. It was a really, really hard landing.” He was seated in 18A, near the wing on the left side and just in front of the escape route. Remarkably, he said he’d probably choose that seat again.

At first, though, nobody inside the cabin could fully understand what had happened; it was only after getting out that the scale of the damage became impossible to miss.

“As soon as you get out and see the entire front of the plane completely destroyed,” he said, “You quickly realize something has gone very wrong.” Inside the plane, the scene was even more harrowing, as Cabot said injuries were immediately visible all around him.

He remembered turning and seeing the passenger next to him with a bloody nose and a bleeding forehead. In his Post account, he described it even more starkly: there was “blood everywhere.”

And yet, amid that horror, something unexpected happened…

The Power of Humanity

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