Pearson airport president ‘won’t speculate’ on cause of Monday’s crash as investigation begins
The president and CEO of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport says investigators are on site following a dramatic plane crash this week that sent multiple people to hospital.
Deborah Flint spoke to reporters at a Tuesday afternoon news conference alongside emergency responders, describing their response to the incident as “textbook.”
“I thank each and every one of these heroes,” Flint said, adding that 19 of the 21 people that were injured in the crash have now been released from hospital.
A video posted in a private Facebook group called Toronto Pearson Aviation shows the Delta plane coming in for a landing on Monday, sliding, and then rolling as flames and smoke billow.
On Monday afternoon, a Delta Air Lines plane crashed on the airport’s runway. Video of the incident shows a burst of flames and black smoke before the plane, a Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR, flipped onto its back.
The mangled plane remains on a Pearson runway, and will likely stay there for at least 48 hours as investigators begin their work, Flint said.
Transportation Safety Board expected to comment
Flint said that 20 investigators from the Transportation Safety Board are now at the airport, along with members of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and teams from Delta and Mitsubishi.
In the nearly 24 hours since the crash, details on what may have caused it have been scant.
At Tuesday’s news conference, Flint she would “not speculate” on what happened.
“You can expect to start hearing more from the investigating authorities about the accident that happened here,” she said, adding that she anticipates a statement from the Transportation Safety Board with information on Tuesday afternoon.
The crash came after days of difficult weather conditions in the area, including two snowstorms last week and over the weekend.
Toronto Pearson President and CEO, Deborah Flint, is speaking to the media one day after a plane crashed and flipped on the runway at the airport.
But Flint also said that Monday was “clear,” and that airport staff had been working hard in the hours leading up to the incident to recover from delays and cancelled flights stemming from previous days of messy weather.
At Tuesday’s news conference, Toronto Pearson Fire Chief Todd Aitken was also asked about the possible impact of crosswinds, which are winds that blow perpendicular to the direction of travel.
On Monday evening, Aitken had said that the runway was dry and that crosswinds were not present. But at Tuesday’s news conference, he said that it was “very early to provide any conclusions,” instead referring questions to the Transportation Safety Board.
2 people remain in hospital
Ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance service, said Monday that one of the injured passengers was a child who was taken to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children with critical injuries.
Authorities could not confirm on Tuesday whether that child was one of the two people who remained in hospital.
A Peel Region paramedic representative says people on board the Delta airlines plane that skidded and rolled at Pearson on Sunday says staff saw a ‘multitude’ of injuries, including back sprains, head injuries and anxiety, as well as nausea and vomiting due to fuel exposure.
According to Cory Tkatch with Peel Regional Paramedic Services, “staff were faced with a multitude of injuries,” when they arrived at the scene Monday.
Tkatch said the most common injuries were back sprains, head injuries, nausea and vomiting.
Pearson operating without 2 runways
As the investigation gets underway, Flint told reporters that Pearson is unable to use two of its runways and remains in “recovery mode,” trying to catch up on delayed flights.
Pearson is “currently without use of our longest east, west and north runways,” she said.
“This, and ongoing expected additional weather conditions today, will affect how fast we recover operations, particularly with departure of aircraft.”
Environment Canada issued a winter weather travel advisory for Toronto on Tuesday, saying the city could see an additional five centimetres of snow by this evening.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Pearson’s online departures board shows significant and widespread delays for departures.
According to FlightAware, an online flight tracking platform, inbound flights to Toronto are also being held at their departure points until 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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