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.
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 flipped onto its back, coming to a stop a few metres away.
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, the company that built the plane.
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.
A plane from Minneapolis crashed when landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport Monday afternoon. David McNair, a former Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigator, analyzes how unlikely it is that only three people were critically injured in the incident.
“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.
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.
Aitken responded that it was “very early to provide any conclusions,” reiterating comments he made on Monday night that crosswinds had not been present.
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.
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.
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