In what is being heralded as a "total miracle," a flight attendant survived being thrown from an Air Canada plane after it collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — A flight attendant still strapped in her seat survived being thrown from an Air Canada plane that collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, her daughter said Monday.

“The flight attendant’s seat is kind of a jump seat that folds down and is bolted to the wall, the same wall that the cockpit utilizes,” said Guzzetti, a former federal crash investigator. “It’s a ...