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What the passengers felt next was a sudden hard jolt and crash as the Boeing 737-700 slammed down hard on the runway. |
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Sparks and metal flew as the plane tore chunks of concrete from the tarmac. |
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Seats ripped loose and baggage tumbled from the overhead compartments. |
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Some passengers were thrown from the cabin completely as the moorings of their seats broke loose and they landed on the ground still strapped in. |
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The plane was literally ripped into pieces. |
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接著，乘客感到一陣劇烈震動與碰撞，只見這架波音七三七之七○○客機猛烈墜落在跑道上。飛機刮起好幾塊跑道路面上的混凝土，火花與金屬碎片四處飛濺。機上座椅猛然鬆脫，行李也從頭頂置物櫃翻落下來。有些乘客完全被拋出機艙外，由於座椅固定處已鬆脫，他們跌落地上的時候都還被安全帶綁在座椅中。這架飛機真可以說是摔得支離破碎。 |
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What happened next was nothing short of a miracle. |
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Though 120 of the 131 passengers aboard were injured, there was only one fatality. |
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That individual died of a heart attack, rather than injuries received in the crash. |
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接下來發生的事情堪稱奇蹟。機上的一百三十一名乘客雖有一百二十人受傷，卻只有一人喪生。而且這名乘客還是死於心臟病，而不是墜機造成的傷害。 |
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Passengers describe the flight as "two hours of normalcy followed by minutes of sheer terror." |
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乘客形容這趟飛行是「兩小時的平靜無波，卻接著幾分鐘的極端恐怖」。 |
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"Everything was going well," said crash survivor Heriberto Hurtado. |
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"When we felt something, it was the crash. |
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No sooner had the rear wheels touched down when it started to break apart. |
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It broke apart and the seats were torn loose. |
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We ended up seeing the road, and it started to catch fire. |
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There were many people wounded, screaming." |
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「本來一切都很順利，」墜機生還者烏塔多說：「我們覺得有異的時候，就已經墜機了。後輪才著地，整架飛機就斷裂開來，座椅也都脫落了。我們最後映入眼簾的是跑道，飛機也開始著火。許多人都受了傷，不斷尖叫。」 |
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The cause of the crash is still under investigation. |
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Columbian authorities are looking into whether lightning or a severe downdraft played a role. |
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墜機原因仍在調查中。哥倫比亞相關單位正在調查罪魁禍首究竟是閃電還是強烈的下衝流。 |
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"We were caught in a great sinking as we reached the runway, as our wheels touched down," said the pilot in an interview with a local camera crew shortly after the crash, his face still bloodied. |
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"It threw us out. It threw us out. Nature is very strong." |
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「我們抵達跑道，在輪子著地的時候，受到一股強大的力量往下拉，」飛行員在墜機發生後不久接受當地媒體採訪，臉上仍然鮮血淋漓。「那股力量把我們摔了下去，摔了下去。自然的力量非常強大。」 |
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Industrial engineer Jose Ricardo Ramirez reported seeing lightning outside the plane window just prior to the crash. |
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工業工程師拉米雷茲指稱他在墜機前看到機窗外有閃電出現。 |
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"I didn't feel any explosion," Ramirez said. "It's a miracle from God. Thank God we are still alive. |
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拉米雷茲說：「我沒有感覺到任何爆炸的情況，這是上帝的奇蹟。感謝上帝，我們還活著。」 |
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