A woman has described how she is "lucky" to be alive after being hit in the head by a part of an aircraft's propeller that had sliced through the plane's fuselage following an emergency landing.
Christina Kurylo was on board an Air Canada flight that was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off on Thursday, after a tire on one of the plane's wheels blew as it was departing Calgary.
"I'm really lucky. It could have been a million times worse," Ms Kurylo told Global News. "I could have died, you know, you never know what could have happened."
The plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Edmonton International Airport, Canada, as the winds were too strong for the plane to turn back to Calgary.
Ms Kurylo was one of four people taken to hospital after the plane skidded on the tarmac during the emergency landing, causing one of its propellers to slam into the fuselage as the aircraft tipped over onto one side.
