The dramatic new footage released Tuesday showed a passenger plane smashing into a runway at a major Toronto airport, turning upside down as an investigation into the cause of the crash began.
A thick plume of fire balls and black smoke slid into the rooftops on Monday, wrapping the Delta plane, but 80 people on board were not killed.
“The crew of Delta Flight 4819 heroically guided passengers to safety and evacuated a jet that capsized the runway on landing amidst smoke and fire,” Toronto Airport Director Deborah Flint told a press conference. He spoke.
She said the Canada Transportation Safety Board deployed 20 investigators at the site where the Bombardier CRJ-900 crashed.
The agency said in a statement Tuesday evening that the cockpit audio recorder and flight data recorder were collected and sent to the lab for inspection.
“It's too early to determine the cause of the accident,” the agency said.
Canadian investigators will be supported by the US Federal Aviation Administration and representatives of Delta and Mitsubishi, who purchased the CRJ plane line from Bombardier in 2019.
The crashed injury said “although it is critical by the minors, it is not life-threatening.”
Delta said 21 passengers have been taken to hospital, with 19 people released so far.
Paramedics told AFP Monday that three people were seriously injured — a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in his 40s.
– Black smoke –
The flight, which has 76 passengers and four crew members, had landed in Canada's largest city in the afternoon after a flight from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The video, posted to social media and verified by AFP, was taken from the cockpit of another jet liner waiting for the tarmac.
It came in for a normal landing before slamming it onto the runway, rolling to the right and sliding forward, sliding with its wings cut before its back stopped.
I could see the flames swirling from the torso and the black smoke.
“Ah, no,” you can hear the pilot say in the video that he mixed the let literary notes.
The rescue team responded, spraying water on the jet, shaving its underside and turning black.
Airport fire chief Todd Aitken said he saw an isolated fire when rescuers arrived at the scene.
“They were able to defeat the spot fires right away,” he told reporters on Tuesday, entering the plane and searching.
Most passengers were already “self-evacuated,” he added.
– The smell of jet fuel –
Corey Tucucci, an emergency team member in the area, said emergency responders dealt with “various injuries” including reverse sprain, head injuries, anxiety and headaches.
Passengers reported jet fuel smells as they left the plane. Some people suffer from nausea and vomiting due to exposure to fuel, he said.
In the days before Monday's crash, two massive snowstorms crashed into eastern Canada, dumping 70cm (more than 2 feet) of snow.
In Toronto on Monday, when the airline added flights to compensate for the storm's weekend cancellations, strong winds and cold bone temperatures could still be felt.
The Toronto crash was the latest in a recent series of aviation accidents in North America. These include airborne collisions between a US Army helicopter in Washington and a passenger jet that killed 67 people, as well as a crash of a medical transport in Philadelphia. He's dead.
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