Why did the Delta aircraft crash and turned to Toronto? Here’s what we know about the cause.
Jet Delta Air Lines collapsed on Monday During a fire -landing At the Toronto Pearson International Airport, sliding a series of asphalt before stopping as he turned upside down.
The dramatic scene, taken on a video of the air traffic controller and, later, passengers on board, were injured by 21 people – two critical ones. What was caused by the Canadian Transport Safety Committee, which was said on Tuesday that the black aircraft boxes were recovered and the US National Traffic Safety Committee and the Federal Air Force Administration. Here’s what we know so far.
The ceiling of the plane “became the floor”
Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 performed Minneapolis-ST. Paul International Airport in Minnesota on Monday morning, carrying 76 passengers and four crew members.
The plane, operated by Delta Air Lines, headquartered in Minneapolis, hit a landing tape as he arrived at Toronto Airport at about 1:15 pm, Delta said. The pictures and the video of the accident showed that the CRJ-900 aircraft lit when he hit the sidewalk and continued to turn aside as he slid across the airport, losing his tail and both wings along the way.
Eventually he rolled over and stopped. Passengers on the plane have been described by hanging upside downsuspended by their attached security belts, with one person recalling that he “crashed on the ceiling, which became the floor” after unbuttoning.
Emergency teams rushed to the collision site, extinguishing the flames and then evacuating passengers who were still inside. At a press conference on Tuesday, the President of the Toronto International Airport and Executive Director Deborah Flint praised the Delta flight crew and emergency officials at the airport for answering the “textbook” for an accident that began within a few minutes. “
“The Delta Flight 4819 crew brought passengers to the safe, evacuating a jet abolished on a runway on a landing that was in the middle of, smoke and fire,” Flint said. “Thank you for everything you do every day and every night in the service of safe air trips.”
Two people were critically injured
All 80 passengers and crew members on the Delta flight survive the collision. Emergency liability and flight crews took passengers down the passage of an overturned jet and helped evacuate them through an emergency output door. Several recording from the collision showed that passengers climb from the aircraft and exit snow asphalt, where strong winds passed.
Officials originally reported that 19 people had suffered injuries in the accident, but the number was revised up to 21 between Monday and Tuesday. Flint said 19 people were taken to hospitals in the area for medical treatment immediately after the collision, and two more were received later. Corey Tktach, Commander of Operations for Regional Services Peel Regional, he said, said Some have suffered sprainsHead injuries, anxiety and “nausea and vomiting for fuel exposure.”
Nineteen injured people were published by Tuesday, according to Delta Air Lines, while the two were hospitalized and their conditions were listed as critical. The exact nature of their situations has not been published, but Flint told reporters that people hurt on Flight 4819 had a number of injuries considered less than critical, none of whom are life -threatening.
The Peel Regional Paramedic Services in the first sorting of a child as injured and in critical condition, but the hospital for sick children later said that the child was in good condition. Journalists pressed airport officials on Tuesday and answers to the answers on whether two people were still hospitalized with critical injuries involved any children, but officials said they did not know.
Toronto experienced rough and cold weather
Evacuiors from the plane crash were welcomed with sharp winter conditions when they went out to the airport, and one person compared the environment over time of Tundra. The snow and ice coated the asphalt, and in the video you could see strong, flashed winds.
Meteorologists said Toronto experienced snow blowing when an accident occurred, and visibility was reduced to 6 miles. The winds blew up to 37 miles per hour, and temperatures fell far below freezing to just 17 degrees Farenhait.
However, the head of the Toronto International Airport Todd Aitken Fire Airport said on Monday that the airport runway was dry at the time of the collision, and there were no intersection conditions while the Delta flight arrived.
Flint said on Tuesday that the collision had taken place on the “Operational Day” at the Toronto airport, which canceled hundreds of flights over the weekend as a result of strong snowfall. More than 1,000 flights were scheduled by Monday, and they continued at the airport about three hours after the accident.
Nearly two dozen members of the Canada Transport Safety Committee is investigating the fall and what could have been caused by it. The National Transport Safety Committee and the Federal Air Force Administration will also send people from both US agencies to help the probe.
