哥131人客机坠毁仅1人遇难创奇迹

爱思英语编者按：据法新社报道，本周一一架波音737客机在哥伦比亚一个旅游海岛降落时遭遇雷击，不幸坠毁，被摔成三截，机上乘客四散在跑道上，但是所幸仅有一名乘客身亡。飞机失事后，一名73岁的老妇因心脏病发作，被送往医院抢救无效后去世，但有关官员称，其余130名乘客全部生还简直是个“奇迹”。大部分幸存者都受了点伤。

A Boeing 737 crash-landed Monday on a Colombian resort island during a lightning storm, scattering passengers across the runway as it split in three, but somehow only one passenger died.

A 73-year-old woman suffered a heart attack and died in hospital, but officials said it was a "miracle" there were no more fatalities among the 130 survivors, most of whom suffered some kind of injury.

The plane was struck by lightning 80 meters (250 feet) above the tarmac at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla airport on the Caribbean island of San Andres, aviation officials said, but the cause of the crash was still under investigation.

Passengers were "literally scattered over the end of the runway," a police statement said. The authorities later put the number of injured at more than 120, five of them seriously.

There were at least 16 foreigners on board the Boeing 737-300, including six French, four Brazilians, four Americans and two Costa Ricans.

"We all felt the plane was arriving very, very quickly on the tarmac," 28-year-old Virginie Giroux, one of the French passengers said.

"We did not feel the contact with the ground. We just saw everything flying, everything bursting in the plane."

Orlando Paez Baron, director of civil security from Colombia"s national police, said the pilot had briefly lost control of the aircraft but showed skill in keeping the plane on the runway.

The plane, belonging to Colombia"s Aires airline, left Bogota shortly after midnight and crashed in San Andres in conditions of reduced visibility about two hours later, according to air traffic controllers.更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

San Andres"s governor Pedro Gallardo said it was only good fortune that prevented there being more casualties among the 131 people on board.

"We thank God for the miracle granted to this archipelago," he told national radio. "The captain, the co-pilot and all the crew are safe."