Toronto Mishap.
“Our plane crashed. It’s upside down.” Words were spoken by Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 passenger John Nelson on a dramatic video he posted to Facebook from the tarmac at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport immediately after his plane from Minneapolis to Toronto crash-landed and flipped upside down on Monday afternoon, injuring 17 people, three of whom were hospitalized, according to officials.
There were 22 Canadians were on board; the rest of the 80 on the plane — 76 passengers and 4 crew — were internationals.
The number of people injured was down from early reports from paramedics that 19 were hurt.
Toronto Pearson Fire Chief Todd Aitken said 18 passengers were taken to the hospital. Earlier, Ornge air ambulance said it was transporting one pediatric patient to Toronto’s SickKids hospital and two injured adults to other hospitals in the city. Jane Stevenson, ‘Toronto Sun’
Elevated attention is being paid to aviation mishaps after the fatal collision of an American Airlines plane and an army helicopter in Washington DC. The scrutiny is far more intense as Washington undergoes a makeover with less workers in organizations like the FAA that are tasked with keeping America’s skies safe. That being said aviation is still the safest mode of transport by far and the period of no aviations accidents prior to the DC crash was very long and remarkable.
