AUDIO: Air Canada flight 624 passenger Sarah Dijkema

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Posted March 30, 2015 8:13 am.

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Sarah Dijkema and her husband Steve were on the last leg of their journey back from Indonesia aboard Air Canada flight 624 when the landing gear was ripped off the plane while flying into at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

She tells her story on 92.9 Jack FM in Halifax.

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