Delta Air Lines Reacted crashed on Monday During the fiery planting At Toronto Pearson International Airport, which dropped down the asphalt before coming to the stop, turning down.
The dramatic scene shot on the air traffic controllers, and later the passengers left 21 people, were injured – two critically. What caused him remains under the investigation of the Canadian Transport Security Council and several transit agencies in the United States. That's what we know so far.
The ceiling of the plane “became a floor”
The Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 went to the Minneapolis Sent. Paul International Airport in Minnesota on Monday morning, transporting 76 passengers and four crew members.
The aircraft, operated by a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines on the basis of Minneapolis, hit the landing when it arrived at Toronto Airport at about 13:15 CST, Delta reports. Images and videos showed that the CRJ-900 aircraft caught fire when it hit the sidewalk and continued to turn, sliding over the airfield, losing its tail and both wings along the way.
After all, he rolled over and stopped. Passengers in the plane ever since described to hang upside downSoured with secured seat belts, and one person reminded him “crashed on the ceiling, which after the splitting became the floor.”
The emergency teams rushed to the scene, extinguishing the flames, and then evacuated the passengers who were still inside. At a press conference on Tuesday, the President of the Toronto International Airport and the CEO of Deborah Flint praised the delta -ekipage and ambulance staff at the airport launch of a “textbook” response that began “in minutes”.
“The Delta -Rissa 4819 crew heroically brought the passengers to security, evacuating the aircraft that overturned the runway on landing, which was among the smoke and fire,” Flint said. “Thank you for everything you do every day and every night at the safe air travel service.”
Two people were injured
All 80 passengers and crew members in the Delta flight survived the catastrophe. The medium -sized employees and flight -ekip have spent the passengers on the aisle of the overturned aircraft and helped evacuate them through the emergency door. More frames from the catastrophe showed that the passengers climbed out of the plane and came out on the snowy asphalt, where the powerful wind made past.
Initially, officials reported that 19 people were injured as a result of the accident, but their number was revised until 21 on Monday and Tuesday. Flint said 19 people were taken to a hospital in the area for medical treatment immediately after the disaster and two more were taken later. Curry Teach, Commander of Operations on Regional Mediary Services Peel Some people have suffered stretchinghead injuries, anxiety and “nausea and vomiting from the fuel exposure”.
According to the Delta -air lines, nineteen victims were released on Tuesday, while the two remained hospitalized and their conditions were listed as critical. The exact nature of their situations was not published, but Flint told reporters that people who had suffered from 4819 flight had a number of injuries that were considered minor for critical, none of whom were life -threatening.
Pay regional paramedic services are first attributed to the child as injured and critical, but in the hospital of sick children later said that the child was in good condition. Reporters pressed airport officials and respondents on Tuesday to the answers to two people still hospitalized with critical injuries that include children, but officials said they did not know.
Toronto was experiencing rough and cold weather
Evacuated from the plane crash were met with rigid winter conditions when they went out to the airfield, and one person compared the environment with the Tundra weather. Snow and ice coated asphalt, and the video could be seen powerful winds.
Meteorologists said Toronto was experiencing snow when the accident happened and the visibility was reduced to 6 miles. The winds broke up to 37 mph, and the temperature dropped much lower than the freezing to just 17 degrees.
But the head of the Toronto Fire Airport, Toronto Tod Aitken, said on Monday that the airport runway was dry during the catastrophe, and when the Delta flight arrived.
Flint said on Tuesday that a disaster was carried out at the Toronto Airport, which canceled hundreds of flights last weekend as a result of heavy snowfall. More than 1000 flights were planned by Monday, and they resumed at the airport about three hours after the accident.
Almost two dozen members of the Transport Security Council in Canada conduct an investigation into the catastrophe and what may have caused it. The US National Transport Council and the Federal Aviation Administration will also send people from both US agencies to assist in the probe.