(27 Jul 2025)
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Los Angeles, U.S. - 27 July 2025 ++VIA VIDEO CALL++
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
"It was kind of crazy. Like people started screaming. They didn't really know what was going on. One kid said, ‘We're all going to die.’ Like it was — babies were freaking out."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
“And we make it halfway down the runway when I hear this, like all of us, hear this loud, loud boom.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
“People started freaking out. They like quickly took their seat belts off. People were starting to stand up. Um, and then the flight attendants came on the intercom and they were like, everyone needs to remain seated. But of course, like people are freaking out, like what is going on?”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
“That's kind of when I looked to my teammate sitting on the left side and she said that there's fire. And then she saw smoke and then all the other people started seeing it. And that's when I kind of was like panic mode. Like I need to get off this plane. I need get off this plane fast.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
“The pilot finally came on to the intercom after, I mean, it was pretty all pretty quick, but like, I want to say like after two minutes. And he said, evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. And so immediately, like we all picked up our things. Everyone started kind of like shoving and like moving in different directions. Nobody really knew where to go. Um, and then finally, like the flight attendant said, ‘Go to the back, go to back.’ And so then of course everybody else starts saying, ‘Go to the back.” So we all start running to the back, and that's when we went down the slide.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
“I mean, honestly, like you just got to like appreciate what you're given. And I'm, like, I'm so grateful, like, that it wasn't worse. And, like, I'm very thankful for everybody that helped out.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Armistead, passenger:
“I guess it was kind of instinct. Like I had my phone in my hand… and it was just so unusual. And like, I always like to capture things on video or on photo and, so I like just, started videoing because I was like, ‘Whoa, like, what is going on?’ And then, like, I posted that to my Snapchat story, which was like, just all my friends, you know, like just my normal people. Because I was like, ‘Guys, like, this just happened. Like, I was just on a plane crash, you know, like, it's crazy.’"
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STORYLINE:
Authorities say passengers had to evacuate a smoking American Airlines jet at Denver's airport using an emergency slide on Saturday.
Shay Armistead, a 17-year-old from Minturn, Colorado, described a chaotic scene.
After hearing a loud “boom,... [truncated]
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