Story by Raksha Bhattacharjee
At Toronto Pearson International Airport, a Delta Airlines aircraft overturned during landing, injuring 18 people, including a child. When a Delta Airlines aircraft landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada on Monday, it turned upside down in a terrifying plane crash. Officials estimate that 18 individuals, including a kid, were hurt in the collision. Fortunately, though, everyone survived the flight. Four crew members and 76 passengers were on the flight; all but the injured were unharmed. The flight had taken off from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in the United States.
Travelers describe the horror
The passengers described their terrifying landing flight flipping experiences. One passenger told CNN that during the incident, they were hanging upside down from their seats “like a bat.”
According to passengers John Nelson and Peter Koukov, the plane flipped, leaving the occupants floating in their seats. “I was upside down when we were done, and everyone else was there too,” Nelson recalled as he described the jet colliding with the earth and veering sideways.
“We made an effort to leave as soon as we could,” he continued.
According to Nelson, there was also a fire that started when the plane struck the runway. The ground crew, however, acted quickly and doused the downed aircraft with fire retardant while it was still belly up.
The gusts were really strong, I noticed. There was some snow that had blown across the runways. As a result, it was normal, but Nelson noted that the runways were in somewhat strange shape.
When the plane stopped, Koukov remembered, “we were upside down hanging like bats.” Before they could help anyone who required assistance unbuckling themselves, Nelson and Koukov unbuckled themselves and fell to the plane’s ceiling.
According to Nelson, the scene was chaotic and terrified people hurried to exit the aircraft. The flight attendants then assisted the passengers in crawling out of the plane through the exit door and onto the runway. Some passengers left with their baggage despite being advised to leave their personal belongings behind.
In the face of freezing gusts, they leaped onto the snow-covered ground and clung to their clothing to stay warm.The crash’s reason is still a mystery. “A plane has crashed. However, Constable Sarah Patten of the Peel Regional Police in Ontario told Reuters, “At this time, we don’t know the circumstances surrounding it.” To find out what went wrong during the landing, a probe is underway.
The collision is the most recent in a series of North American aircraft mishaps. All 67 people on board were killed when an American Airlines regional plane crashed into a US military black hawk helicopter in midair during a landing at Reagan Washington National Airport in January.
