Plane passengers take selfie from site of collision with fire truck

Passengers have shared what’s been called “the selfie of the year” after surviving a plane crash, but there’s a reason it’s been criticised.

Their faces were still covered in firefighting foam but these relieved passengers didn’t care, they just had to capture this moment so they could remember it forever.

Ecstatic, they pulled out their phones, smiled and snapped a photo that some would later deem the “selfie of the year”.

Because they had just survived a plane crash, and it was nothing short of a miracle.

Posted on Twitter by Enrique Varsi-Rospigliosi, the image was given the caption: “When life gives you a second chance #latam” and has received more than 192,000 likes.

However, unbeknown to them at the time, two firefighters from the truck that had collided with their LATAM airlines plane at Peru’s Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima on November 18 had lost their lives.

And many criticised the passengers for daring to be so happy in their selfie in light of this sad news.

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