"While it was happening, I very calmly had the thought that I was likely going to die," the Delta Air Lines passenger recalled.

Stiff winds blew over Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport Monday afternoon as a slim aircraft and its 80 passengers and crew drifted toward the snowy tarmac, cleared by air traffic controllers to make a landing.

Delta Flight 4819, which was arriving in Toronto from Minneapolis, burst into flames upon landing and flipped upside down on the runway Monday.