Delays plague Toronto Pearson airport as crews deal with backlog from crash, storms
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More delays and cancellations to and from Toronto Pearson airport continue on Wednesday amid a backlog from the Delta plane crash and two major winter storms.
More delays and cancellations to and from Toronto Pearson airport continue on Wednesday amid a backlog from the Delta plane crash and two major winter storms.
On Wednesday morning, Pearson’s arrival and departure boards show an overwhelming number of flights are delayed, with some even cancelled.
The backlog comes after two consecutive winter storms hit the Toronto region on Thursday and Sunday, bringing a combined total snowfall amount to around 50 cm.
Then, on Monday afternoon, Delta Air Lines flight 4819 travelling from Minneapolis to Toronto crash landed on the runway at Pearson, causing the aircraft to flip upside-down on its roof and catch on fire.
There were no fatalities, however, 21 people, including a child, were taken to hospital from the crash. As of Tuesday morning, 19 of them were released and two remain hospitalized. Twenty-two of the 76 passengers were Canadian; the rest were multinational.
Video posted online showed passengers self-evacuating from the plane, walking onto a snowy tarmac.
Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Tuesday they’ve recovered the plane’s black box and sent it off for analysis, but it’s too soon to say what led to the crash.
Airport authorities said the wreckage of the aircraft was expected to remain on the runway for about 48 hours until the investigators finish their work.
The wreck of a crashed Delta Air Lines jet has been cleared from a runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
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