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We pulled the door open a little, and flames were visible. The flight attendant said, ‘No. No.’ And we shut the door immediately. Then the flight attendant turned around and said, ‘We can’t get out this way.’ And we went the other way.

By the time I refocused and turned around there was nobody else there. I saw the [same] black man and a small black child wiggling out of a place where there was light at the tail end of the aeroplane. I had previously seen this area of light when I went to help with the door, but I ignored it because I had seen flames as well as light. [Just as Flight Attendant DeMary had trouble believing that the aeroplane had come to a halt in a neighbourhood with trees and houses, this passenger was equally baffled, and reasonably so, when she looked down before stepping out of the wreckage and saw a household’s kitchen in front of her.] I came back to where my seat was, and I noticed that to the left there was a door going into the kitchen [of the house that the aircraft had collided with]. I was confused.

I asked myself, ‘Why is this kitchen here?’ I tried to open the kitchen door, thinking that I could get out through the kitchen. The door was like a storm door with glass on the top and a white bottom. The glass in the door was not broken. I wanted to smash the window, but I could not find anything loose that I could use.

I decided that I [had to escape] through the area that I had seen the man and his young son wiggling through. Then I heard a man yell, ‘We made it! We made it!’ And I knew I had to go that way.