Christina Kurylo
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11/10/2014 AT 03:40 PM EST
"I am very blessed to be where I am right now," Christina Kurylo told Canada's Global News. "I could have died, you know, you never know what could have happened."
Kurylo was a passenger on an Air Canada plane that made a crash landing at Edmonton International Airport on Thursday after it apparently blew a tire during take-off.
Sitting in a window seat over the wing, she said she saw a tire flapping in the air before the aircraft attempted to land on the runway and heard a commotion in the back of the plane on touchdown.
"All of a sudden I got hit in the head," she told Global News. "It was pretty confusing for me. It's bits and pieces for me after that."
Co-worker Melissa Menard, who was also on the plane, described how the propeller broke through the fuselage after the emergency landing.
"The propeller, obviously that didn't hit her, but the whole inside wall of the plane blew out so she had fiberglass and everything all embedded in her skin," Menard said.
Kurylo and Menard were two of five passengers from Grande Prairie radio station Rock 97.7. Kurylo was taken to hospital for mild concussion and bruises, and two others were injured, CTV Edmonton reports.
The plane, a Bombardier Dash-8 400 series aircraft, was flying from Calgary to Grande Prairie with 75 people on board when pilots reported an issue. The flight was rerouted to Edmonton.
Transport Canada said "significant debris was found" on the runway in Calgary where the flight originated, according to Global News.
"A flight attendant said one of the tires blew up and we were going to switch airplanes in Edmonton," another passenger said.
Investigators are still working to determine the official cause of the accident.
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