Toronto plane crash. Experts with factors that saved passengers
Passengers shared dramatic reports from the Delta Air Lines plane crash in Toronto. Although the machine fell on the roof, everyone survived. Experts agree, which protected them from a much more serious scenario.
The accident of the Delta Air Lines aircraft occurred on Monday at the Toronto Peason airport.
On Monday afternoon, air traffic controllers allowed the landing of the machine flying from Minneapolis, along with 80 passengers and crew, and the plane was heading towards the snowy runway. Then the Bombardier CRJ900 crashed in the runway and turned over to the roof.
Although the photos from the airport looked dramatic, everyone survived the disaster. A total of 18 passengers were injured and three were hard. At the time of the incident, a strong wind was blowing at the airport, and earlier snowstorms passed over it.
The media published dramatic accounts of passengers.
Delta Airlines passenger reports
– We hit the ground, found on the side, and then we hung upside down like bats – reported the passenger of the unlucky flight and the skier, Pete Koukov in an interview with CNN.
– I just felt lucky and I was happy that I could hug a person I didn’t know, sitting next to me, and say that everything was fine with us, and see my friends who came to pick me up from the airport, and hug them tightly He added.
The same passenger showed how he left the plane. “Leave everything!” -At the beginning, sit down a person who helps to evacuate passengers. “Don’t record” – you can hear the person who turned to. Then you can see people who run away. The passenger came even closer to record the machine of the machine.
Safer aircraft seats and improvement of standards
Rescuers quickly began to pour the plane with an fire -fighting agent to suppress the flames on the other side, while passengers quickly escaped to a safe place.
Experts agree that improvement in machine design and stronger, safer seats They were of great importance in the course of this accident. Seats in aircraft are designed to withstand the force sixteen times greater than the gravity force, which guarantees that they will remain in their place in the event of a machine overpass, which Micheal McCormick, associate professor and coordinator of the Aviation Traffic Management Program on the Air Traffic Management Program spoke in an interview with USA Today. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.
David Soucie, CNN safety analyst and former Security Inspector for Federal Aviation Administration, noticed that the wings had detached intentionally, “and that’s good”. He also pointed out that in 1987 in Denver, the wings remained in a broken plane, destroying him after he fell over. Then 28 people were killed.
