Passengers begin to share their stories that survived Cooling landscapes of accidents On Monday, at Toronto Pearson International Airport, where the delta plane on the flight from Minneapolis caught fire and rolled upside down On the take -off -pad strip.
There were 80 people – 76 passengers and four crew members – all of whom survived. Authorities said 21 people were injured. Two victims of passengers, a 40-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man, were initially considered critically injured and were taken to the hospital, and others were considered light and moderate, according to the regional paramedics who responded to the stage. Delta said two people remained hospitalized on Tuesday, CBS News Minnesota reported.
One of the passengers talking about his experience is Pete Carlson, who sat on the plane on Monday morning at the Minneapolis Sent. Paul International Airport for participation in a paramedic conference in Canada.
In an interview with Canadian CBC News, Carlson reminded of the sounds of “cement and metal” and the aroma of gasoline when the plane was brought along the ice -running strip in Toronto, losing both wings and tail, as well as turning it to the wheels face at the sky.
“When we made our origin and forced the landing, it was just a very strong event where suddenly everything just went to the side,” Carlson CBC News said. “And then, the next thing I know, it was a flash, and I was still tied up.”
Carlson secured the seat belts, according to the instructions, before planting. When he turned off his belt to evacuate the plane, he said “crashed on the ceiling that became a floor.”
At the press conference “Deborah Flint, President and CEO of Toronto Pearson International Airport, workers at the airport were able to reach the catastrophe,” said Flint, President and CEO of Toronto Pearson International Airport. They quickly helped evacuate everyone on board. Flint said 22 passengers were Canadian and the rest were transnational but did not give details of how much American or other nationalities were.
“The most powerful part today was only people. There are no countries or nothing,” Carlson said. “There were just people who helped each other.”
Another passenger, John Nelson, shot a video of the plane, burned and overturned when people climbed out of it.
Nelson described the plane that makes a tight landing before the screeching on the sidewalk on the side and ended up turning over his back, CBS News Minnesota reported.
“There was, for example, a large firing ball behind the left part of the plane, and when we finished, we were down, everyone else was there,” Nelson said. “We tried to get out of there as soon as possible.”
John Nelson
Several additional videos appeared on the Internet when passengers started shooting the evacuation. In one of the video divided into Snapchat, Ashley Zuk's passenger seemed to hang off his feet from the seat in the plane with a fastened seat belt, AFP reports. The accident seemed to knock the light inside the plane, and it was dark.
In the same video on the social media showed a hard wind that made it past the sucking after she came out of the plane.
“I was just in the plane crash, my God,” she said in the video.
Another foreign, ski and sporting influence of Pete Cook, shared another video Due to the crash on Instagram. A stewardess, which bears an air uniform, helps people evacuate the plane one by one through the emergency weekend door that moved through. The Endeaavor Air is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines with a headquarters in Minneapolis.
The stewardess can be heard how the passengers will “quit everything” and urge them to “come”.
“Holidays f ***!” Cooks repeatedly exclaimed in the record after receiving the plane. His message to Instagram includes a message: “Life today feels very cool.”
Later told Cooks Cnn Before the evacuation “we were upwards, as the bats.” He said he “knew nothing” until the plane hit the ground.
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The accident is under investigation by the Canadian Transport Security Council, which confirmed that it was conducting a probe. The US National Security Council and the Federal Aviation Administration said they would also send investigators.
Meteorologists said it was snowing when the accident occurred, and the visibility decreased to 6 miles. The winds broke up to 37 million / h, and the temperature was much lower than freezing, at 17 degrees Fahrenheit.
But the head of the Toronto Fire Airport Pearson Tod Aitken said on Monday night that the runway was dry during the catastrophe, and there were no cross -wind conditions. Flint said two runways at Toronto airport would remain closed at least on Tuesday when the investigation continued.