Diyarbakir, Turkey ? Moments after the Turkish Airlines plane crashed on landing and split apart, a screaming, burning Aliye Il unbuckled her seat belt and fell into a soft pile of grass.

Il then grabbed some grass and beat herself with it to extinguish her burning hair and clothes.

“I think it was a miracle,” the 48-year-old mother of four said Thursday from her hospital bed.

Il was among five survivors of Wednesday’s crash that killed 75 people — including four Britons, an unidentified American and a Finnish national — in Turkey’s worst air disaster in 25 years.

“It’s a miracle five people came out alive,” Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said while visiting victims’ families. “The plane was torn apart.”

The pilot of the British Aerospace RJ-100 missed the runway because of heavy fog, officials said. The airport in southeastern Turkey, which is owned by the military, lacks an Instrument Landing System, or ILS, to help during times of low visibility.

Gul suggested better technology might have prevented the crash and said Turkey must consider providing all airports with equipment to assist landings in bad weather.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed an American was killed but said he was not able to release the victim’s name or hometown.

Turkish military officials examine the plane wreckage at Diyarbakir airport. Officials say 75 people were killed and five others injured in Wednesday's crash.