After watching the Delta Air Lines video, the jet set fire to the fire upon landing. Turning over on the Toronto runway It's fair to wonder how everyone could survive.
However, aviation experts said it wasn't all surprising 76 passengers and four crew members left 21 people suffered minor injuries from Monday's disaster, and only one person was still hospitalized on Wednesday. They are creditable to advance the crew who have carried out the plane's design and evacuation plan perfectly.
“When I first saw the plane upside down (the footage) at the airport, I was like this: “That was absolutely amazing to see people actually climbing,” said Michael McCormick, assistant professor of air traffic management and program coordinator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Passenger seat design factors
McCormick and others said the fact that only minor injuries were found to indicate that passenger jet design and engineering has improved significantly over time.
He said the fuel tanks are stored on the wings, so the wings are designed to remove serious explosive dangers that break in a crash. The tail-like fins of planes, known as vertical stabilizers, mean that the flipped aircraft can stay flat on the ground, allowing passengers and crew to evacuate.
“Aviation is the safest form of transportation and still remains,” McCormick said. “That's because aviation safety is constantly improving.”
Jeff Gutzetti, an airline safety consultant and former investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, said seats and seat belts also helped prevent death. He noted that the seating seats were designed to withstand the effects of up to 16 times the impact of gravity, and the seat belts suppressed passengers who were stopped upside down as the plane stopped on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
” Possibility of getting injured or being killed “In commercial airline accidents, there are far fewer than driving in a car,” Gusetti said.
The crew carried out the evacuation plan.
Experts also praised the crew. The crew quickly shepherd many passengers from the plane before the emergency crew arrived on the scene. Deborah Flint, CEO of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, called the flight crew “heroes,” and boss Delta CEO Ed Bastian praised the response as “a proof of safety embedded in the system.”
“It's scary. If you watch the video, you can imagine it when you receive the text a few minutes after it happened. 80 people felt that way, hearing it was upside down on an active runway with 80 people.
“But the reality is that safety is embedded in our system,” he said. “Air travel in the US is the safest form of transportation and travel. Duration. And that's because we train for events like this.”
How was it inside the cabin?
The Minneapolis to Toronto flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, a Delta subsidiary, crashed on landing around 2:30pm on Monday. The video shows the plane crashing violently into the runway, explode into flames, sliding down along the tarmac and turning over.
“It was a very unpleasant, very solid and unpleasant experience. It was a shock, powerful sideways movement, and suddenly flipped,” Paramedic Peter Carlson, who was traveling to Toronto for a meeting, told the Associated Press. “My only mission was to come out.”
Carlson was awarded at the Ambulance Council for “courageous and meritful behaviour” in supporting other passengers. The certificate states that his actions “sustained life, reduced injuries and calmed down.”
“I have tears, wear, some bruises on my legs, rib bruises, but I'm alive,” Carlson said. “Everyone is alive. I don't know if they deserve to enter the territory of miracles, but that's amazing.”
Other videos appear to show passengers scrambling from upside down cabins as workers are rescued from planes on snow runways and hosed the aircraft with water.
Passengers take action
According to Vincent Genova, head of the company's air litigation group, some passengers “who suffered as a result of the crash” held the law firm Rochon Genova.
“Like many other passengers, our client suffered personal injury of a serious nature that required hospital attention,” Genoa said in a statement. “With our involvement, we hope to reach a timely and fair solution to these clients and other clients reaching out to us.”
A Delta spokesman has confirmed that it is offering $30,000 to each passenger and “telling customers that this gesture does not have a string and does not affect its rights.”
Aviation experts, however, declined to comment on preliminary theory. He told the Associated Press They may consider weather conditions as well as human error and possible aircraft malfunctions.
“At this point it's too early to say what caused the accident,” Ken Webster, senior investigator at the Canadian Road Safety Board, said in a video statement Tuesday. He said investigators were looking at the wreckage and runways, and the cockpit audio and flight data recorders were being analyzed.
TSB announced Wednesday afternoon that crews were moving the wreckage from the runway to the hangar for further examination.
