For one uncanny moment as Amtrak Train 188 rounded a turn just out of Philadelphia, Jeff Kutler thought the train was gliding above the tracks.

Then came darkness, screams and chaos.

“To me, it felt like it was lifting off, like it had lifted off the track,” said Kutler, a journalist from Brooklyn.

“I think we rolled for a while,” he told USA Today, with his car — the second from the front — doing a 90-degree turn and skidding to a stop.

That’s when he realized that the windows were now where the floor had been.

More than 200 people were injured when all seven cars of a New York-bound Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia — nearly every one of the train’s total of 243 passengers and crew.

They suffered burns, many cracked ribs and no small amount of terror.

But even the “luckiest” passengers — those who were spared hospitalization — will never forget what they witnessed.

“Blood was all over the place,” passenger Caleb Bonham, 28, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Many of his fellow passengers in the train’s rear-most car could not even stand — and one woman lost her front teeth and was bleeding from her mouth.

“There were two people in the luggage rack above my head,” Jeremy Wladis, who was also in the last car, told CNN. “Two women catapulted [there].”

Passenger Jillian Jorgensen literally “flew across the train” when the seven cars sped around a curve in the tracks, then skidded and buckled like empty soda cans.

“It was terrifying and awful, and as it was happening it just did not feel like the kind of thing you could walk away from, so I feel very lucky,” said Jorgensen, 27, who was seated in the second car from the front.

This was the so-called quiet car. But at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, it was filled with the sounds of crashing metal and screaming passengers, said Jorgensen, a reporter for The New York Observer who lives in Jersey City.

One man was lying still, his face covered in blood. A woman nearby had suffered a broken leg, she recalled.

“A lot of blood, a lot of folks got banged up, hurt bad,” recalled former Pennsylvania Congressman Patrick Murphy, speaking to “Inside Edition.”

“I checked my body parts — I was OK. The guy next to me was unconscious, so I kind of slapped him a little bit and got him up and he was, believe it or not, OK.”

“The most serious and challenging injuries have been a lot of rib fractures,” Dr. Herbert Cushing, chief medical officer at Temple University Hospital, told reporters.

“In fact I was startled to hear as we ran down the list of patients this afternoon that almost everybody had rib fractures,” he said.

The worst of the injured include eight passengers who remained in critical condition at Temple on Wednesday night.

“The critical folks are gonna do just fine over the next few days,” Cushing stressed.

Another 15 passengers were admitted with less severe injuries, he said. The injured patients’ ages ranged from early 20s up to 80.

Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts