New video reveals Delta aircraft flip throughout touchdown on Toronto runway which left passengers ‘hanging like bats’: Latest
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A Delta Air Lines passenger on board the dramatic crash-landing atToronto Pearson International Airport described the “mass chaos” as the jet flipped upside down.
John Nelson is one of the 80 people who survived Delta Flight 4819 after it slammed into the tarmac and erupted into a fireball at around 2:15 p.m. ET on Monday, leaving 21 individuals – including one child – hospitalized. As of this morning, 19 people have been released.
“We hit the ground and the plane went sideways and I believe we skidded on our side and flipped over on our back,” Nelson told CNN. “It was mass chaos… It’s an emotional roller coaster that you go through, but it’s things you hope you don’t see again.”
All passengers and crew onboard the overturned CRJ900 twin-jet are believed to have survived. A pediatric patient was transported via ambulance to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and is believed to be in good condition. An adult male in his 60s and a female patient in her 40s were transported to area hospitals via helicopter.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is leading the investigation and has deployed a team to the scene.
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Writing on Instagram stories, Liu said he was at Los Angeles International Airport Monday for an Air Canada flight, which was delayed for over four hours due to the incident.
The gate agents were “so amazing to every single passenger. It filled my heart with hope.”
“Hope everyone flying arrives at their destinations safety,” he wrote.
‘We were hanging like bats’
A passenger on board Delta flight 4819 described the moment that the plane eventually came to a standstill after crashing into the tarmac and flipping over.
“We were upside down hanging like bats,” passenger Peter Koukov told CNN.
Koukov said that once the plane rolled over, he was “upside down,’ everybody else was there as well.”
Another passenger said that they released themselves from their seatbelts and clunked to the floor.
Transport Secretary Sean Duffy tries to shift blame for recent air disasters onto Pete Buttigieg
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tried to shift the blame for a string of recent air disasters onto his Democratic predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, in the wake of cutting hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration personnel.
Duffy, confirmed to lead the department in the Senate late last month, revealed on Monday that the Trump administration fired “less than 400” of the FAA’s 45,000 employees. He also claimed all of them were serving probationary periods.
The layoffs took place against a backdrop of three fatal U.S. air disasters since Donald Trump’s inauguration last month, in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Alaska – with another commercial plane carrying 80 people flipping over upon a crash landing at Canada’s Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.
James Liddell has the full story.
New video shows inside plane after crash
The footage obtained by ABC News and shows the chaotic scene inside the aircraft
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Delta Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, flying from Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport touched down upside-down in Toronto at around 2.15 p.m. Monday. The aircraft was flying in the wake of a snowstorm and amid wind gusts that whipped at more than 40 mph.
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Watch live: Aftermath of Delta plane crash after flight 4819 flips over in Toronto
Delta CEO says taking care of passengers and crew on board flight 4819 ‘priority’
Delta CEO Ed Bastian issued a new statement on Tuesday after flight 4819 flipped over upon crash-anding the Toronto Pearson International Airport tarmac:
“Our most pressing priority remains taking care of all customers and Endeavor crew members who were involved.
“We’ll do everything we can to support them and their families in the days ahead, and I know the hearts, thoughts and prayers of the entire Delta community are with them. We are grateful for all the first responders and medical teams who have been caring for them.”
WATCH: Moment Delta plane flips over and bursts into flames while landing at Toronto airport
Aircraft will remain on runway as investigators launch probe into accident
Officials expect the runway where the crash occurred to be closed for at least 48 hours, impacting the level of traffic the airport can accommodate.
Representatives with the Canadian Transportation Safety Board, US Federal Aviation Administration, Delta Airlines and Mitsubishi, the airplane’s manufacturer, are currently at the site.
Source: independent.co.uk
