An Air Canada flight attendant who was thrown from the plane during the crash at LaGuardia has been seen in her hospital bed for the first time— as her daughter described horrific injuries she is recovering from.
Solange Tremblay, a 26-year veteran flight attendant, was hurled more than 320 feet when she was ejected from Jazz flight 8646 inbound from Montreal after it crashed into a fire truck on the New York airport’s runway on the night of March 22.
“During the crash she was… ejected over 320 feet from the wreckage. She was found still strapped in her jump seat lying on the tarmac,” her daughter, Sarah Lepine, said in a GoFundMe page to support her mother’s medical treatment.
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“My mother’s injuries include two shattered legs (open fractures) requiring multiple surgeries where metal plates are needed to repair the damage done to her legs,” Lepine continued.
“She sustained a fractured spine where she continues to wait and see if surgery is required. Furthermore, she requires skin graphs to repair the missing flesh she lost on her legs while sliding down the tarmac,” she went on.
“She has even received a blood transfusion due to complications from her first surgery,” Lepine said, while sharing a picture of her mother in her New York hospital bed.
Both pilots were killed in last Sunday’s incident, which obliterated the plane’s cockpit.
