He said the flight attendants responded "very efficiently" and pushed people to hit the slides "as fast as possible." All 297 passengers and 12 crew members survived the fiery crash, Canadian authorities and Air France said.
"It's conceptually very simple, but has to be done very, very carefully," Robinson said.
His friend, Roel Bramer, who was seated in the last row of Flight 358 from Paris, said the plane "went up and down like a roller coaster" when it skidded off the runway, and that by the time it came to a stop, the jet was burning.
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In a history-making repair during Wednesday's spacewalk, Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson will come within feet of the shuttle's underbelly and gently pluck filler material sticking out from between heat-resistant tiles in two places on the orbiter."It'll be a gentle pull with my hand," Robinson said of the repair, which will last approximately 90 minutes. "If that doesn't work I have some forceps, I'll give a slightly more than a gentle pull." If that doesn't work, he said he will use a saw to remove the fillers. There will be "no yanking," he said.
