TORONTO: Dramatic new footage launched on Tuesday (Feb 18) confirmed a passenger aircraft hitting the runway laborious and flipping upside down at Toronto’s main airport, as investigations started into the reason for the crash.
A fireball and thick plumes of black smoke engulfed the Delta Air Traces aircraft because it skidded to a halt on its roof on Monday however not one of the 80 folks on board had been killed.
“The crew of Delta Flight 4819 heroically led passengers to security, evacuating a jet that had overturned on the runway on touchdown, amidst smoke and fireplace,” Toronto airport authority chief government Deborah Flint advised a information convention.
She mentioned Canada’s Transportation Security Board had deployed 20 investigators to the location the place the Bombardier CRJ-900 crashed.
The company mentioned in a press release on Tuesday night it had recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight knowledge recorder, which had been despatched to a laboratory for examination.
“It’s far too early to find out the reason for the accident,” the company mentioned.
Canada’s investigators shall be assisted by the US Federal Aviation Administration and representatives from Delta and Mitsubishi, which bought the CRJ line of planes from Bombardier in 2019.
Accidents sustained within the crash ranged from “minor to crucial, however not life-threatening”, Flint mentioned.
Delta mentioned 21 passengers had been transported to hospitals and to this point 19 had been released.
Paramedic companies advised AFP on Monday that three folks had been critically injured – a toddler, a person in his 60s and a girl in her 40s.
