A Delta Air Lines jet crashed on Monday During a burning landing At Toronto Pearson International Airport, slipping the Tarmac before stopping while turning backwards.
The dramatic scene, captured on video by air traffic controllers and, later, the passengers on board, left 21 people injured – two critically. This caused the Canadian Transportation Safety Board, who said on Tuesday that the black boxes of the plane had been recovered and the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration. Here is what we know so far.
The plane ceiling “had become the ground”
The flight of Delta Air Lines 4819 left Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota on Monday morning, transporting 76 passengers and four crew members.
The plane, operated by the Delta Air Lines subsidiary based in Minneapolis, Endeavor Air, hit the landing track when it arrived at Toronto airport around 1:15 p.m., according to Delta. The images and video of the accident showed that the CRJ-900 plane will take fire when it hit the sidewalk and turned to the side while sliding on the aerodrome, losing its tail and both wings along the way.
He finally turned and stopped. Passengers on the plane have since described suspended backwardsSuspended by their attached safety belts, with a person recalling how he “crashed on the ceiling, who had become the soil” after a tank.
The emergency teams rushed to the accident site, turning off the fire, then evacuating the passengers who were still inside. At a press conference on Tuesday, the president and chief executive officer of Toronto International Airport, Deborah Flint, praised the Delta flight crew and emergency workers at the airport for launching a “Manual” response to the accident that started “in a few minutes”.
“The crew of Delta Flight 4819 led passengers heroically to security, evacuating a jet which had overturned on the track on the landing which was in the middle of smoke and fire,” said Flint. “Thank you for everything you do every day and every night in the plane travel service safely.”
Two people were seriously injured
The 80 passengers and crew members of the Delta flight survived the accident. The emergency speakers and the driving team themselves inaugurated the passengers in the overturned jet aisle and helped evacuate them through an emergency exit door. More sequences of the accident showed that passengers left the plane and came out on a snowy tarmac, where powerful winds whipped.
The officials initially indicated that 19 people had been injured in the accident, but the number had been revised up to 21 between Monday and Tuesday. Flint said 19 people had been taken to hospitals in the region for medical treatment immediately after the accident, and two others were admitted later. Corey Tkatch, commander of operations of Peel Regional Paramedic Services, said Some people have suffered sprainsHead injuries, anxiety and “nausea and vomiting due to fuel exposure”.
Nineteen of the injured people were released on Tuesday, according to Delta Air Lines, while two remained hospitalized and their conditions were listed as criticism. The exact nature of their situations was not published, but Flint told journalists that people injured in flight 4819 had a range of injuries considered minor criticism, which none of whom threatened life.
Peel’s paramedical regional services first classified a child as injured and in critical condition, but the sick children’s hospital later said that the child was in good condition. Journalists hurried on Tuesday airport officials and stakeholders to obtain answers as to whether the two people hospitalized with critical injuries included children, but the officials said they did not know.
Toronto had a rough and freezing time
The evacuates of the plane accident encountered difficult winter conditions when they went out on the aerodrome, with a person who compares the environment to the Tundra weather. The snow and ice coated with the tarmac and powerful and windy winds could be seen on video.
Meteorologists said Toronto was blowing snow when the accident occurred and visibility had been reduced to 6 miles. The winds were blowing up to 37 miles per hour and the temperatures dropped well below the frost at only 17 degrees Fahrenheit.
But the chief of the Toronto International Airport Firefighters Toronto Aitken said on Monday that the airport track was dry at the time of the accident, and that there was no way to the wind conditions When the Delta flight has arrived.
Flint said on Tuesday that the accident took place during “an operational day” at Toronto airport, which canceled hundreds of flights during the weekend following strong snowfall. Monday, more than 1,000 flights were planned and resumed at airport for about three hours after the accident.
Nearly two dozen members of the Canada Transport Council conduct an investigation into the accident and what could have caused it. The United States National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will also send people from the two US agencies to help the investigation.
