Survivors of a horrible plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon – thankfully, there were no deaths, so all those on the plane were on the plane, but the wheels touched the tarmac Just a few seconds after that, the plane said it had turned over without warning.
The Delta Airline Flight 4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto completed what passengers described as a daily descent before suddenly flipping upside down, losing wing and tail fins in a fiery collision.
“You're landing and waiting to meet your friends and people. And the next minute you're physically upside down and really turning around. It was cement and metal.” I said One of the passengers is paramedic Pete Carlson.
“Everyone on that plane suddenly got very close in terms of how to help each other, how to comfort each other. It was powerful,” Carlson said.
Another passenger, Colorado professional skier Pete Koukoff, said he was “buckled pretty quickly and leaned down to the floor, the ceiling.”
“People were in panic,” he recalls.
Carlson and Koukov said much of the panic came from noticing fragments of flames scattered beside the plane.
After Koukov I said FOX NEWS “There are no warnings from the pilot” anything could be odd.
“There was no physical warning either. I didn't feel anything wrong until two seconds saw the wheel touch the ground and all the mayhem from there. We hit the ground and bounced back. , sided. We had been sliding down to our side for a while,” he said.
Koukov said the passengers were “hanging upside down like bats.”
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Miraculously, no one was killed in the incident, but 21 of the 80 people on board were hospitalization One of them was injured and one of them is a child. Only two people were injured in the hospital Tuesday morning.
Emergency workers said most of the injuries consisted of back pain, head injuries, anxiety and nausea from fuel spilled during the crash. Some of the injuries were inherently important, but some were not described as life-threatening thanks to the prompt response from emergency crews at Pearson Airport.
Pearson Airport CEO Deborah Flint said Toronto had accumulated more than 20 inches of snow after seeing “extreme circumstances” from two separate snowfalls on Thursday and Sunday. She said she would not comment on the runway condition at the time of the crash until a “full and complete investigation” was completed.
Canada's weather service reported shows and winds plunging into 40 mph as soon as the crash fell on Monday afternoon. Some pilots who reviewed the crash video said that the rear landing gear appeared to have been torn off the plane. This could have been caused by strong lateral gusts combined with a smooth runway.
New York Times on tuesday Quote Video recorded from another Pearson runway “shown that “shows you land violently on a snowy runway and flipping the right side in a black cloud of smoke.”
The plane involved in the crash was the Bombardier CRJ-900, an old but still popular model. According to Mitsubishi, which purchased CRJ series planes from Bombardier and subsequently discontinued them, more than 400 CRJ-900s are currently operated by 18 airlines around the world.
UK Daily Mail on tuesday Quote The CRJ-900 plane is an aviation safety expert who said it has been involved in 118 safety accidents since 2005, but most of them were minor. The CRJ-900, built in Canada, has never been involved in a fatal accident.
“The most serious incidents on the plane appear to be related to landings, but the plane never turned upside down during Monday's crash landing in Toronto.” Daily Mail It has been reported.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday that Canada's Transportation Safety Board will lead an investigation into crashes, with the support of the US National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB).
The wings that get off the plane are one of the most frightening details of the crash, but aviation safety experts I said The wings of the breakaway are designed to keep fuel away from passengers during a crash, so losing the wing may be one of the reasons no one was killed.
