The day after the jetliner turned the moment over after landing in Toronto, the rest of the aircraft was upside down on Tuesday, cutting off the right wing and tail, and the wreckage blocking the longest runway at Canada's busiest airport.
Official After the jet made a rough landing and stopped and stopped amidst the dense smoke, sparks and flames at Toronto Pearson International Airport, all 4,819 Delta flights escaped death or life-threatening injuries It was there.
“Every time you board a flight, you are greeted by the flight attendant and flight crew,” Deborah Flint, president of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, said at a press conference Tuesday. “But we saw the most important role they played in acting yesterday. The crew of the Delta Flight 4819 heroically led the passengers to safety.”
There was no official word on the cause of the crash as investigators from the Canadian and US Safety Commission, as well as local jet manufacturers began to comb the wreckage. According to aviation safety experts, they are expected to investigate a variety of factors.
“We've seen a lot of effort into making it easier to understand,” said John Cox, founder of the aviation consulting company's safety operating system.
The plane approached the runway on Monday in windy conditions that the former pilot described as challenging.
For the 80 people on a flight from Minneapolis, the world was in a hurry shortly after the wheels hit the ground. In the blink of an eye, passengers found themselves hanging upside down as they ran down the window.
“The absolute first feeling is, 'We need to get out of it,'” Carlson told Canadian public broadcaster CBC.
However, after the horrifying strings of fatal aviation accidents over the past two months, this crash turned out to be different.
The seat belts that passengers had tied to landing preparations likely contributed to a more devastating lack of consequences, aviation experts said. The flight attendants and passengers were then able to help each other through the emergency exit and with the help of firefighters headed for the snow runway.
Delta said 21 passengers were taken to a local hospital after the crash. By Tuesday morning, all but two had been released, the airline said.
Dianna Ertl, the mother of one of the passengers, said her son, Mitch Ertl, 37, was treated at the hospital and was returning to Minnesota on Tuesday. He was on a business trip.
“My heart has sunk,” Ertl said. She explained the phone calls she received from her son.
Ertl told her he was one of the last people leaving the plane and that he needed to break the meal tray table that he had blocked from unlocking his seatbelt, she said. .
“I was relieved to know that I was talking to him and that he was walking,” Ertl said.
The ambulance crew waiting to take off captured the moment of a crash landing on video. The video, which has spread to social media and verified by the New York Times, may provide clues as to why the plane was turned back.
