A woman aboard an Air Canada Jazz flight from Calgary to Grande Prairie was rushed to hospital after one of the plane's propeller's reportedly snapped off and smashed into the passenger cabin.

Shockingly, Christina Kurylo suffered only minor injuries from the freak accident.

“I’m really lucky. It could have been a million times worse,” she told Global News. “I could have died, you know, you never know what could have happened.”

Kurylo told the news outlet she was seated in the seventh row of the plane -- Q400 turboprop carrying 71 passengers -- when the propeller smashed into the window, missing her face by inches.

“All of a sudden I got hit in the head,” she said. “It was pretty confusing for me. It’s bits and pieces for me after that.”

“The propeller, obviously that didn’t hit her, but the whole inside wall of the plane blew out so she had fibreglass and everything all embedded in her skin,” added her colleague Melissa Menard, also on the plane.

A photograph, taken in the aftermath, made headlines around the world.