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18-02-2025
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Toronto plane crash survivor describes 'mayhem' after terrified passengers hung upside down on Delta jet
A passenger from the Delta Air Lines plane that crashed in Toronto recalled the harrowing moment the aircraft hit the runway and flipped over, propelling passengers into the air while they hung from their seat belts. Peter Koukov, who was traveling from Denver to Toronto on Monday, caught the moments after the crash-landing on camera as passengers de-boarded the aircraft. He joined "America's Newsroom" to discuss the the harrowing incident. Toronto Plane Crash Timeline: Delta Flight From Minneapolis Flips Upside Down While Attempting To Land "Basically, we hit the ground and kind of just bounced up and turned on our side and were sliding on our side for a while," Koukov told Dana Perino on Tuesday. "Honestly, not as long as I thought we were going to slide for, and then we ended up upside down and we were… hanging by our seat belts upside down for a second." "We made it off safely," he continued. "Everyone is alive, thankfully." The CRJ-900 jet, which was bound for Toronto Pearson International Airport, had departed from Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport on Monday. Read On The Fox News App The Federal Aviation Administration said all 80 people aboard the jet were evacuated, as images also showed the aircraft belly up in the snow at Toronto's airport. Before the crash, high winds and drifting snow reportedly had already prompted flight delays and cancelations at Pearson. "There was no warning from the pilot," Koukov said. "There was no… physical warning either. I didn't feel like anything was wrong until kind of just like the second the wheels touched the ground… It all kind of went mayhem from there." Air traffic control audio released after the crash depicts officials describing how the plane was "ups-side-down and burning" on the tarmac. Plane Crashes Spark Renewed Fear Of Flying: 10 Causes Of Aviation Disasters Delta Air Lines said "18 customers with injuries" had been transported to area hospitals. At least three people suffered critical but not life-threatening injuries, a spokesperson for the paramedic service that was on scene told Fox News Digital. Two patients were taken by air ambulance to two different trauma centers – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and St. Michael's Hospital – in Toronto. A child, about four years old, was transported to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. "You're kind of just hanging suspended," Koukov said. "Me and that girl next to me were… able to get out pretty quickly and kind of like climb… sort of fall down to the ground, which was in the ceiling. And then other people kind of needed some help and people were sort of falling. But I don't think anyone… was hurt by getting down from their seat belts." The cause of the crash remains under investigation. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is expected to take the lead. "The hearts of the entire global Delta family are with those affected by today's incident at Toronto-Pearson International Airport," Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a statement. "I want to express my thanks to the many Delta and Endeavor team members and the first responders on site. We are working to confirm the details and will share the most current information on as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, please take care and stay safe." Fox News' Danielle Wallace, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and the Associated Press contributed to this report. Original article source: Toronto plane crash survivor describes 'mayhem' after terrified passengers hung upside down on Delta jet
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18-02-2025
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Jaw-Dropping Footage Shows Passengers ‘Hanging Like Bats' in Crashed Delta Jet
Footage emerged Tuesday of passengers 'hanging upside down like bats' inside the Delta Air Lines jet that flipped upon landing in Toronto the day before. The jaw-dropping clip, recorded by a passenger who was inverted himself, shows a shockingly calm cabin—save for some muffled shouts—with survivors typing on their phones as they dangled in the air, possibly still in shock about what had happened. 'We hit the ground and we were sideways, and then we were hanging upside down like bats,' Peter Koukov told ABC News. 'It all happened pretty, pretty fast.' Koukov said some passengers dangled helplessly until rescuers arrived to safely bring them down. His own recording showed the flight crew ushering those who were able to get down safely off the Bombardier CRJ-900 that had taken off from Minneapolis. Pete Carlson, another passenger, said he was also shocked with how quickly the dramatic scene played out. 'The one minute you're landing and kind of waiting to see your friends and your people and the next minute you're physically upside down and just really turned around,' he told ABC. John Nelson, a third passenger, said many on board opted to calmly dangle from their seats at first because the flight crew instructed them to. Passengers took matters into their own hands not long after, he said, adding that he helped bring down those around him after he undid his seatbelt and plopped onto the plane's ceiling, which had become its floor. 'You heard the flight attendants yelling, 'Open the door. Everybody, take your stuff and get out now,'' he recounted to ABC. 'We all worked together and got out of there as quickly as we could.' There were 80 people on board the flight, including its 76 passengers—of which 22 were Canadian nationals—and four flight crew. Perhaps miraculously, there were no fatalities in the crash. However, three people—a child, a man in his 60s, and a woman in her 40s—were rushed to a hospital in critical condition, officials said. A total of 21 passengers required hospitalization, the airline later said, but all but two had been released by Tuesday morning. A definitive cause for the crash is yet to be identified by authorities. Pilots and aviation experts have noted the jet appeared to make a hard landing before it was stripped of one wing and overturned in a fireball. An air traffic control recording said the aircraft was being battered by winds as fierce as 40 mph before landing—part of a nasty winter storm sweeping across the region. While some reports described the runway as 'icy' with winds gusting to 70 mph at landing, the airport's fire chief, Todd Aitken, told reporters the surface was actually 'dry' and 'there was no crosswind conditions' at landing. Despite being on foreign soil, the crash is sure to put pressure on Donald Trump's administration. It's the fourth high-profile aviation crash involving American planes within his first month back in office—a period that has been particularly tumultuous within the Federal Aviation Administration. About 400 termination emails went out to FAA staffers on Friday as part of Trump's far-reaching cuts to the federal government's workforce and overall spending. The timing of the firings has left many scratching their heads, as it comes on the heels of the midair collision of a U.S. Army helicopter and American Airlines jet on Jan. 29 that killed 67; a medical transport plane crashing in Philadelphia that killed six; and the Bering Air passenger flight that crashed in Alaska on Feb. 6 and killed 10.
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18-02-2025
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Toronto plane crash survivor describes 'mayhem' after terrified passengers hung upside down on Delta jet
A passenger from the Delta Air Lines plane that crashed in Toronto recalled the harrowing moment the aircraft hit the runway and flipped over, propelling passengers into the air while they hung from their seat belts. Peter Koukov, who was traveling from Denver to Toronto on Monday, caught the moments after the crash-landing on camera as passengers de-boarded the aircraft. He joined "America's Newsroom" to discuss the the harrowing incident. "Basically, we hit the ground and kind of just bounced up and turned on our side and were sliding on our side for a while," Koukov told Dana Perino on Tuesday. "Honestly, not as long as I thought we were going to slide for, and then we ended up upside down and we were… hanging by our seat belts upside down for a second." "We made it off safely," he continued. "Everyone is alive, thankfully." The CRJ-900 jet, which was bound for Toronto Pearson International Airport, had departed from Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport on Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration said all 80 people aboard the jet were evacuated, as images also showed the aircraft belly up in the snow at Toronto's airport. Before the crash, high winds and drifting snow reportedly had already prompted flight delays and cancelations at Pearson. "There was no warning from the pilot," Koukov said. "There was no… physical warning either. I didn't feel like anything was wrong until kind of just like the second the wheels touched the ground… It all kind of went mayhem from there." Air traffic control audio released after the crash depicts officials describing how the plane was "ups-side-down and burning" on the tarmac. Delta Air Lines said "18 customers with injuries" had been transported to area hospitals. At least three people suffered critical but not life-threatening injuries, a spokesperson for the paramedic service that was on scene told Fox News Digital. Two patients were taken by air ambulance to two different trauma centers – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and St. Michael's Hospital – in Toronto. A child, about four years old, was transported to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. "You're kind of just hanging suspended," Koukov said. "Me and that girl next to me were… able to get out pretty quickly and kind of like climb… sort of fall down to the ground, which was in the ceiling. And then other people kind of needed some help and people were sort of falling. But I don't think anyone… was hurt by getting down from their seat belts." The cause of the crash remains under investigation. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is expected to take the lead. "The hearts of the entire global Delta family are with those affected by today's incident at Toronto-Pearson International Airport," Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a statement. "I want to express my thanks to the many Delta and Endeavor team members and the first responders on site. We are working to confirm the details and will share the most current information on as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, please take care and stay safe."
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18-02-2025
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Investigators probe cause of Toronto Delta plane crash
Investigators are looking into what made a Delta plane crash land and flip over at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Monday, an incident all 80 people on board survived. Officials have yet to say what caused the crash although experts believe the wintry weather and strong winds may have played a part. The Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible before it came to a halt upside down. Eighteen people were injured but only a small number are thought to be seriously hurt, a fact described as miraculous by analysts. Passengers on board said they were hanging upside down in their seats and had to release themselves, falling on to the ceiling before clambering out on to the snow-covered tarmac. Firefighters quickly came to the rescue. "We were upside down hanging like bats," passenger Peter Koukov told CNN. A child was among the injured but was in good condition as of Tuesday morning, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto told the BBC's US partner CBS News. There were 76 passengers and four crew on board the 16-year-old CRJ900 aircraft, made by Canada's Bombardier company. 'I was just in a plane crash' - survivors' stories Why did it crash and how did everyone survive? Experts told the BBC it was miraculous that everyone survived the crash, adding that the swift response of flight attendants and emergency crews helped save people, as well as plane safety improvements. Airport authorities said the runway was dry at the time of the crash, despite the wintry conditions in the city. They said snow had stopped and "frigid temperatures and high winds [were] moving in". Analysts say it is possible the plane may have struck an item on the runway such as a light when it landed. The crash is at least the fourth major aviation incident in North America in the past month, including an American Airlines plane in Washington, DC, that collided with a US Army helicopter, killing all 67 people on board. Why did a plane crash in Toronto, and how did everyone survive? All passengers survive crash landing as plane flips at Toronto airport
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18-02-2025
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Investigators probe cause of Toronto Delta plane crash
Investigators are looking into what made a Delta plane crash land and flip over at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Monday, an incident all 80 people on board survived. Officials have yet to say what caused the crash although experts believe the wintry weather and strong winds may have played a part. The Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible before it came to a halt upside down. Eighteen people were injured but only a small number are thought to be seriously hurt, a fact described as miraculous by analysts. Passengers on board said they were hanging upside down in their seats and had to release themselves, falling on to the ceiling before clambering out on to the snow-covered tarmac. Firefighters quickly came to the rescue. "We were upside down hanging like bats," passenger Peter Koukov told CNN. A child was among the injured but was in good condition as of Tuesday morning, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto told the BBC's US partner CBS were 76 passengers and four crew on board the 16-year-old CRJ900 aircraft, made by Canada's Bombardier told the BBC it was miraculous that everyone survived the crash, adding that the swift response of flight attendants and emergency crews helped save people, as well as plane safety improvements. Airport authorities said the runway was dry at the time of the crash, despite the wintry conditions in the city. They said snow had stopped and "frigid temperatures and high winds [were] moving in".Analysts say it is possible the plane may have struck an item on the runway such as a light when it landed. The crash is at least the fourth major aviation incident in North America in the past month, including an American Airlines plane in Washington, DC, that collided with a US Army helicopter, killing all 67 people on board.
