Frances Bean Cobain has revealed she was one of 496 passengers who were part of a terrifying emergency landing after an Air France A380 lost its engine over the Atlantic Ocean.
The 25-year-old daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love opened up about the harrowing experience in an Instagram post this weekend, telling her 708,000 followers how feeling the plane tilt 38,000 feet above the ground and fearing for her life caused her to reevaluate her priorities once safely back on the ground.
Air France’s pilot had to divert the plane, which was supposed to fly from Paris, France to Los Angeles, California last month. It instead landed in Newfoundland, Canada, where 496 passengers and 24 crew members were thus brought to safety.
Speaking out: Frances Bean Cobain has revealed she was part of a terrifying emergency landing in an Air France A380 last month. She is pictured with her mother four days prior
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The 25-year-old opened up about the harrowing experience in an Instagram post this weekend and shared photos of the damaged airplane (pictured)
Passengers have shared photos and videos of one of the plane’s four engines disintegrating mid-air, and images that show part of the cowling blasted away during the flight.
Frances herself posted three pictures on her Instagram account, showing the damaged A380, which is the largest passenger aircraft.
‘I’ve avoided talking about this because telling strangers struck me as a fruitless endeavor,’ Frances wrote about the emergency landing. ‘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.’
She then explained that on September 30th, she boarded the ill-fated flight after amending her booking in order to get home earlier.
Frances attended Paris Fashion Week in the days before the flight, and was photographed attending shows, at times with her mother, in the French capital.
![Fate: Frances explained that on September 30th, she boarded the aircraft (pictured) after amending her booking in order to get home earlier](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/09/15/452B268700000578-4962848-image-m-39_1507559686580.jpg)
Fate: Frances explained that on September 30th, she boarded the aircraft (pictured) after amending her booking in order to get home earlier
![Message: The artist and model described her terror as she witnessed the engine failure unfold, and how grateful she is to be alive. Pictured is one of the photos she shared of the plane](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/09/16/452B273F00000578-4962848-Message_The_artist_and_model_described_her_terror_as_she_witness-a-4_1507563758096.jpg)
Message: The artist and model described her terror as she witnessed the engine failure unfold, and how grateful she is to be alive. Pictured is one of the photos she shared of the plane
‘This would act as the moment that would alter everything I thought I knew,’ she added about the mid-air scare. ‘I have woken up everyday [sic] for the past week just grateful to wake up.’
The artist and model then described her terror as she witnessed the engine failure unfold, and how grateful she was to be alive afterwards.
‘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,’ she wrote.
‘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.’
![International traveling: Frances (pictured left in New York earlier this year) attended Paris Fashion Week in the days before the flight](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/09/16/452B2B5000000578-4962848-International_traveling_Frances_pictured_left_in_New_York_earlie-a-1_1507563757784.jpg)
![Snap: She was seen attending shows and events during Paris Fashion Week last month (pictured)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/09/16/452B2B4C00000578-4962848-Snap_She_was_seen_attending_shows_and_events_during_Paris_Fashio-a-3_1507563758080.jpg)
International traveling: Frances (pictured left in New York earlier this year) attended Paris Fashion Week (right) in the days before the flight
![Damage: Passengers have shared photos and videos of the engine disintegrating mid-air, and images that show part of the cowling blasted away during the flight (pictured)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/09/16/452B2E7E00000578-4962848-Damage_Passengers_have_shared_photos_and_videos_of_the_engine_di-a-5_1507563758917.jpg)
Damage: Passengers have shared photos and videos of the engine disintegrating mid-air, and images that show part of the cowling blasted away during the flight (pictured)
Frances then explained the ‘anxieties’ she has experienced in the past have now dissipated.
‘I was jolted awake and awake is where I need to stay in order to live authentically,,’ she added. ‘As cheeseball as that sounds. It resonates at true [sic]. To me. As you were.’
French investigators located parts of the lost engine last week in a wasteland covered with ice in Denmark’s Greenland territory.
They were coordinating with their Danish counterparts to organize the recovery of the parts.