Kurt Cobain's daughter Frances Bean reveals she thought she would die on board Air France jet that blew an engine mid air
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Frances Bean Cobain says she feared she would die as she revealed she was a passenger on board the Air France jet which blew an engine in a terrifying mid-air ordeal .
The daughter of Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain said she believed she would never see her mum, singer Courtney Love, or family and friends again as plane's engine disintegrated in the sky.
Horrifying video footage shows part of the plane's engine flapping in the air as it flew over the Atlantic Ocean with 520 passengers on board on Saturday, September 30.
The Airbus A380 aircraft, which was travelling from Paris to Los Angeles, was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada after the pilot declared a mayday.
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Frances, 25, broke her silence six days after the horror, posting a picture of the jet's badly damaged engine on the tarmac.
In a lengthy caption, she explained how the near-miss was "the moment that would alter everything I thought I knew" and had made her reevaluate her life.
She revealed she wasn't actually meant to be on the flight but had changed her booking to get home to LA earlier.
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She wrote: "I've avoided talking about this because telling strangers struck me as a fruitless endeavor.
"But enough time has gone by to where I've sat with what this experience should mean on the grand scale of living my day to day life.
"I have woken up everyday for the past week just grateful to wake up.
"When I felt the plane tilt, saw the wing directly in front of me catch fire, and basically came to grips with my own mortality I made a deal with myself.
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"I promised myself that if I made it through, that I would no longer try to escape the moments of my life. I would no longer indulge in societal cliches & I would let the people I love know how much I love them everyday.
"Thinking I would never see my mom or my boyfriend or my grams or my pets or my friends again, sparked a renaissance of the soul / mind / body / spirit.
"So I've entered the phase of my life where every moment is truly precious. All the mundane "crippling" anxieties I once let dictate how I functioned have dissipated.
"I was jolted awake and awake is where I need to stay in order to live authentically. As cheeseball as that sounds. It resonates at true. To me. As you were - FBC."
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Fellow passengers described how everything seemed normal until they heard a "loud thud and a lot of vibration" before the pilot declared an emergency.
Ground crews were left to "pick up pieces of the plane from the runway", one traveller added.
Flight records show the Airbus A380 aircraft, travelling under flight number AF66, was diverted to Canada's Goose Bay airport on its journey from Paris to LA.
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Earlier this week, audio of the mayday call was released , in which one point a pilot is heard telling controllers on the ground: "Fuel remaining is 70 tonnes, Air France 066 super mayday."
The conversation between the crew and staff on the ground reveal how the A380 plane was guided in to land as a result of the emergency.
A voice on the ground is heard stating as the plane touched down: "I'm not able to tell what engine had trouble."
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Air France confirmed there was "serious damage" to one of the plane's four engines before before it landed safely.
One traveller said on Twitter the engine had "blown over the Atlantic Ocean", leading to the emergency landing in Canada.
Another, named Daniel McNeely, said: "I’m on board. One of our engines is slightly blown apart. Just glad to be on the ground."
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He later added, alongside a photo of the engine: "I think the engine has seen better days."
Peter Cowan also shared an image of the engine and wrote: "This is the reason ground crews had to pick up pieces of the plane off the runway after landing."
Goose Bay airport is a small site not normally equipped to handle such large aircraft, according to passengers.
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Air France said in a statement: "Air France confirms that the crew of flight AF66 decided to divert to Goose Bay airport following serious damage on one of its four engines.
"The plane landed safely at 3.42pm and the regularly trained pilots and cabin crew handled this serious incident perfectly.
"The passengers are currently being assisted by teams dispatched to the location.
"Air France is currently working to re-route the passengers to Los Angeles via one of its connecting platforms in North America."