David Coulthard has shared his harrowing experience of surviving a plane crash days before the 2000 Spanish Grand Prix.The former Formula 1 star was driving with McLaren and just won a second consecutive British Grand Prix at Silverstone that year.A plane crash left Coulthard only with slight injuriesGettyOn May 2, Coulthard was travelling from Farnborough to Nice on a private jet as it crash-landed at Lyon Satolas Airport in France.Both pilots, David Saunders and Dan Worley, were tragically killed in the incident.Coulthard, alongside his then-fiancee Heidi Wichlinski and trainer Andy Matthews, miraculously survived the crash.And speaking on The High Performance Podcast, the Scotsman recalled how it unfolded.“I said hello to the pilots, got on board and an hour later, we were crashing in Lyon with a single engine failure,” Coulthard said.“Seconds later, I’m getting out of that aircraft because fate had decided that, although they both lost their lives, pretty sure instantly upon impact, fate decided that myself, my fiancee at that time, my trainer, and my fiancee’s little dog all survived, got out of the aircraft.“You’re standing there looking at the smouldering, broken aircraft on the side of an international airfield, waiting for recovery vehicles to get you.“That was the Tuesday before the Spanish Grand Prix, and we got driven back that night from Lyon to Monaco, we got home late.“I remember lying in bed… You know sometimes you get that kind of shiver through your body? “I had that little shiver and I went, ‘God, that could have been it today, all over, 30 years old, done, you’re just a footnote in a column somewhere.’The plane’s pilots lost their lives in the devastating incidentAFPCoulthard reflected on how the crash affected his view on lifeThe High Performance Podcast“And I was like, ‘Right, how have I done so far, and what are my aspirations going forward?’ It put in place a lot of changes.”Airport director Bernard Chaffange claimed the jet was on fire upon its crash-landing, as per the BBC.And despite the nightmare event, Coulthard was back on the grid for McLaren and racing at the Spanish Grand Prix.He came fourth in qualifying but finished on the podium in second behind his teammate Mika Hakkinen.Coulthard later won the Monaco and French Grands Prix to rank third in the World Drivers’ Championship for the 2000 season.A second-place finish followed a year later before he left for Red Bull in 2005.Coulthard raced across 15 seasons in Formula 1GettyThroughout his Formula 1 career, Coulthard won 13 Grands Prix and sealed 62 podium finishes.He retired at the end of the 2008 season, and then joined the BBC as a pundit with Jake Humphrey and Eddie Jordan for their coverage.How the plane crash helped Coulthard change his lifeCoulthard previously spoke on the plane crash in 2000 on the Pitlane Life Lessons podcast, and how it impacted his life and career after.“Knowing that two families’ lives had been changed forever – they were fathers, they were husbands, they were sons – it was horrible, absolutely horrible,” he said per the Daily Mail.“What that did do was make me grow the f*** up,” Coulthard added.“I think I’d just turned 30 and I was living the comforts of being well paid as a Formula 1 driver, jumping on private planes and all the good things… I think I was getting a little bit spoiled without realising it.”