‘Everything just kind of went sideways:’ Passenger recounts plane crash landing at Toronto airport
Pete Carlson didn’t think his life would be turned upside down when he boarded a Delta Air Lines flight in Minneapolis, but that’s literally what happened after the plane touched down in Toronto.
The plane crashed at Pearson International Airport on Monday, flipping onto its back and injuring 18 passengers.
“Everything just kind of went sideways,” Carlson, an American health-care worker who was travelling to Toronto for a paramedics conference, told The National‘s Adrienne Arsenault in an interview about the plane’s “forceful” landing.
“One minute you’re landing, kind of waiting to see your friends and your people, and the next minute you’re physically upside down,” he said, adding it’s “really amazing” that he’s alive.
Carlson described the intensity of metal making contact with concrete, with the smell of gas soon to follow. Passengers were on the plane’s ceiling, which was now the floor.
After that, he said, there was a purposefulness among many of the passengers. His paramedic training and paternal instincts kicked in, as he tended to an injured woman and child, while helping free another woman who had ended up underneath a seat.
Carlson called the response of local police, fire and paramedics “amazing.”
“They quickly put those of us that were injured with any sort of blood or sign of trauma onto a single bus, moved us a safe distance away and started to triage and really assess people’s severity of injury or ailment,” he said.
‘People together helping each other’
Carlson said it felt like he was “stepping on to the tundra” after climbing out the plane.
“I didn’t care how cold it was, I didn’t care how far I had to walk, how long I had to stand. All of us just wanted to be out of the aircraft,” he said.
Carlson eventually got into contact with his immediate family and some friends and colleagues. He wasn’t sure exactly when in the sequence of events he received a large cut on the top of his head.
“[I’m] a little balder than I was this morning,” he joked.
Carlson, still smelling of gasoline at the time of interview, said he was looking forward to a shower after a “powerful” experience with fellow passengers.
Video posted to social media by several passengers show the fraught moments after a plane crashed and flipped on its back at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. ‘I was just in a plane crash. Oh my God,’ says one woman who filmed herself upside down in her airplane seat.
It was “just people, no countries, nothing,” he said. “It was just people together helping each other.”
Pearson Airport early Tuesday advised passengers to check the status of their flights before arriving for pickup or departure.
Officials were also expected to give an update on the crash.
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