Toronto Delta passengers detail how passengers hung for security belts after collision
Delta Air Lines co -driver who collapsed in Toronto recalled the painful moment when the plane hit the runway and overturned, pushing passengers into the air while hanging from their security belts.
Peter Koukov, who traveled from Denver to Toronto on Monday, caught the moments after the collision on the camera while the passengers were embedded on the plane. He Joined the “US editorial office” discuss the incident of the tortured.
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“Basically, we hit the ground and somehow we bounced and turned to the side, and for a while we slid on our side,” Kouk’s day Perino said on Tuesday. “Honestly, not as long as I thought we were going to slide, and then we ended upside down and we were … hung up for our security belts upside down for a second.”
“We must have done that,” he continued. “Everyone is alive, fortunately.”
A CRJ-900 jet, which was obliged Toronto Pearson International AirportHe left Minneapolis/st. International Airport Paul on Monday.
A traveler video from the Delta aircraft in Toronto shows customers who give up the plane after they overturned and broke into flames. (Peter Koukov)
The Federal Air Force Administration has announced that all 80 people have been evacuated on the aircraft because the pictures also showed that the aircraft of the abdominal in the snow at the Toronto airport. Before the collision, the strong winds and snow had allegedly encouraged flight delays and cancellation in Pearson.
“There were no pilots warning,” Koukov said. “There was no … not even a physical warning. I felt like nothing was wrong until somehow, like another wheels, they touched the country … Everyone went from there.”
Air Traffic Air Transport Audio Published after the collision shows officers describing how the plane “raped and burning” on the asphalt.
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Delta Air Lines said “18 injuries” was transported to hospitals. At least three people have suffered critical but not dangerous injuries, a spokesman for the medical service on stage, he told Fox News Digital.
Two patients took over air ambulance in two different trauma centers – Sunnybrook Health Science Center and the St. Michael – in Toronto. The child, about four years, was transported to a hospital for sick children in Toronto.
“Somehow you just hang,” Koukov said. “I and that girl beside me were … able to go out quite quickly and somehow like a rise … Somehow she falls to the ground, which was in the ceiling. And then other people needed some help and people were kind of kind of somehow Drop.
The cause of the collision remains under investigation. The Canadian Transport Safety Committee is expected to take over the lead.
“The hearts of the whole global Delta family are with those affected by today’s incident in Toronto-Pearson International Airport, “ Director Delta Ed Bastian said in a statement.
“I want to express gratitude to many members of the Delta and Endeavour team and the first answers on the spot. We are working to confirm the details and we will share the most striking information on News.Delta.com as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, take care and be sure.”
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace, Sarah Rummpf-Whitten and Associated Press contributed to this report.
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