Deaf Woman Survivor Southwest Airlines Crashed

WATCH VIDEO: (Captioned) - Deaf Southwest Airlines passenger recounts ordeal. Southwest flight reveals terror on the tarmac as nose landing gear suddenly collapses and plane with 150 people comes to a fiery skidding halt.



NEW YORK - Boeing 737-700 was bound for New York from Nashville, Tennessee. Southwest Airlines Flight 345 carried 144 passengers and six crew members - New Yorker Aidan Mack, who is deaf - one of the passengers. NTSB looking into cause of Southwest landing gear collapse.



Aidan Mack captured a similarly terrifying scene from her seat aboard the plane, filled with 144 passengers and six crews members. Her video shows some passengers beginning to panic after they were shaken by the hard jolt with no warning.



Ms Mack's story is even more incredible because she is deaf. She struggled to understand what was happening and fought panic - because she was unable to hear any of the announcements in the cabin.

'For me, it was just frantically trying to figure out the situation by watching the body language and the expressions of my fellow passengers, but I was really quite unique in that situation and all alone,' she told the TV station through sign language.



Ms Mack's video footage shows some panicked passengers stand and scream after the crash-landing. Most, though, remained calm. Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374338/Southwest-Flight-345-Boeing-737-crash-lands-LaGuardia-nose-landing-gear-collapses.html



Source: Exclusive interview with Aidan Mack http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=9182271