A new video appeared showing the moment Delta Airline flight The accident landed and overthrowed at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The video, shared by the user X @Armainengineer, shows the plane which approaches the track, touching and radiant in flames. The plane then slides on the track and overturns and the flames continue to get rid of.
Global News was unable to confirm who turned the video originally.
Twenty -one people, one child, were injured after the Delta plane – a Bombardier CRJ900 – Crash landed on Monday afternoon, Delta officials announced on Tuesday morning; 19 were released from the hospital, they added.
Pearson officials said the incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. and led to the airport closure for several hours while the emergency teams were working to respond.
Delta Flight 4819, who was flying for Toronto from Minneapoliswore a total of 80 people on board – 76 passengers and four crew members, officials said.
Among the passengers, 22 of them were Canadian. The others were multinational, according to Deborah Flint, president and chief executive officer of the airport.
The flight was operated by Endeavour Air, a Delta subsidiary. All passengers and the crew were recorded. There was no death.
On Monday, Pearson experienced snow and winds from 51 km / h at 65 km / h, according to Canada’s weather service. The temperature was approximately less than 8.6 degrees Celsius.
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The plane from Minneapolis arrived in the middle blow the snow according to a winter storm It struck the Toronto region this weekend.
There was no immediate word by officials on what led to the incident, because the investigation is still in its infancy. The survey is carried out by the Transport Security Council of Canada.
A regional pilot of the airline, who piloted Bombardier’s CRJ, noted that photos of the crushed jet showed her intact nose -nose. .
Such damage suggested that the Delta Air Lines pilot was going laterally, not straight, before losing control of the jet and crashing, either because of high winds and snow and ice on the track, or a Dangerous combination of both, the pilot suggested.
“It is an easy -to -land plane, even with bellies, as long as you are within the manufacturer’s limits,” said the regional pilot of the airline, who did not want to be appointed as he is employed in the industry .
“Perhaps a broken wheel or a frozen brake also occurred during landing,” added the pilot, who warned against rapid conclusions.
John Gradek, a professor of aviation management at McGill University, told Global’s the Morning Show that it was a “miracle that no one was killed”.
“When you get away from an accident like this, count your lucky ones,” he said.
Gradek said the accident could have been due to many different factors such as winds, track conditions or mechanical problems with the plane.
He added on the basis of the new clear video that emerged online “It seems that the plane struck the track abnormally harshly, a failure of the landing train at the back of the aircraft dragged on the track. The outgoing sparks, Wing was cut … and the plane turned on its ceiling. »»
“Very unusual for an airplane to do it, but there are a myriad of circumstances,” said Gradek.
The last major accident in Pearson took place on August 2, 2005, when an Airbus A340 landing from Paris skidded the track and broke out in flames in the stormy time. Every 309 passengers and crews aboard the Air France 358 flight survived the accident.
The accident on Monday at Pearson airport was the fourth major aviation accident in North America in the past three weeks.
A commercial jetliner and an army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, on January 29, killing 67 people. A medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground. And on February 6, 10 people were killed in a plane crash in Alaska.
– with files Gabby Rodrigues,, Andrew McIntosh And the Canadian press
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