Phuket, Thailand – They were flying to the “paradise isle” in southern Thailand to have a short break, but they never knew that they would be lost forever in the paradise island.

However, Millie Furlong, a Canadian waitress and her Thai boyfriend were fortunate enough to come virtually unscathed from a plane crash that killed 88 people on the resort island of Phuket. They were chanting loads of prayers while they were being taken to hospital.

Hours after the crash, recollecting the terrifying flight at hospital, the 23-year-old from British Colombia narrated to the newspersons that her flight left Bangkok in heavy rain but "it was the rainy season so we weren't surprised".
 
As they were approaching the northwest of the Andaman sea island, she looked out of the window to see a tropical downpour lashing the coastal airstrip, and she got intuition that something was wrong.

She said, "I've never landed in such conditions before; I saw trees bending over."

The next moments were full of confusion. The pilot tried to land, but then appeared to have tried to abort.

"I'm not sure whether we landed but the pilot tried to bring the plane back up. He started to turn right and made a sharp turn right and then the plane went into the embankment.”

"Everything fell out of the top -- the oxygen masks, the luggage, everything; I saw the grass and knew we were going to crash. It was very quick,” she said in the voice full of grief.

 "I was in row 23. I didn't know how much of the plane in front of us was left. The guy in front of us was in flames.”

"The guy behind me was kicking at the window. He kept kicking and kicking the window or the door -- whatever it was -- but it wasn't loosening.”

"If it hadn't opened we would have died. It was dark and smoky. I felt like I was going to pass out," said Furlong with her eyes full of tears.

Furlong told that she managed to get out of the shattered fuselage, and she slid down the wing to the ground where shell-shocked survivors stood rooted to the spot, too confused to run away.

"There were flames in front of me and beside me; the smell was like chemicals; quite a few minutes after, I heard a girl screaming: 'My boyfriend, my boyfriend'; I kept waiting for people to come out but there weren't many.”

"People weren't really running. They were just standing there. It was unbelievable. The girls were mostly crying and one guy was crying uncontrollably. We didn't see many bodies. Most of the bodies were in the plane.”

"My boyfriend is alright. When we both got out - he's Buddhist and I'm Christian - and we both said 'Our gods are looking after us'," said Furlong in deep voice.

Furlong is one of 42 being treated in hospital. She and her boyfriend were hardly scratched. Other survivors at the hospital were heavily bandaged; 5 were listed as critical, with burns to 60 percent of their bodies.