punkwax
03-29-2015, 07:38 AM
Fortunately, no fatalities... almost time to start an Official Plane Crash thread, no?
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Air Canada Flight 624 crash lands in Halifax; 23 sent to hospital | Globalnews.ca (http://globalnews.ca/news/1909898/breaking-air-canada-plane-hard-landing-on-runway-at-halifax-airport/)
It was a frightening landing for passengers on Air Canada Flight 624 arriving in Halifax from Toronto early Sunday morning.
The plane made a hard landing as it skidded off a runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport during a snowstorm.
Air Canada confirmed 23 passengers and crew were sent to hospital, but there were no serious injuries reported and 18 have since been released. Thirteen were sent to Capital Health-run hospitals while 10 were sent to either the IWK Health Centre in Halifax or the Colchester Regional Hospital in Truro, N.S.
AC624 had 133 passengers and five crew members on board. It’s believed the plane hit a power line and then skidded, leading to a mass power outage at the airport. A direct link between the power outage and the hard landing have not been confirmed by airport officials.
The airplane was an Airbus A320, the same type involved in the deliberate crashing of a Germanwings flight over France last week.
READ MORE: A look at the safety record of the A320
Air Canada said more of its management staff have arrived in Halifax on Sunday to help, but did not confirm how many.
Officials from the Transportation Safety Board are coming from Ottawa and expect to hold a news conference at 6 p.m.
He says the Airport Authority can’t comment on the RCMP or TSB investigation, they can only give updates on the runway conditions and airport operations.
Airport spokesman Peter Spurway said the airport was closed to all traffic after the accident.
“We don’t know if weather was a factor,” Spurway said. “Crews had been clearing snow all day.”
Passenger Gordon Murray said he was calm despite the horrific experience.
“We just hit hard and things broke up,” he said. He added he feels fortunate to be alive considering what could have been.
“Just before we hit there was a big ball of light. It hit like a hard landing and we bounced and we skidded.”
Eleven-year-old Leon Yu wasn’t sure what was happening at the time, but recalls the plane “sliding everywhere.”
“A couple minutes later they just told us to get out of the plane,” he said.
Some passengers told Global News they saw an engine fall off during the landing. “The airplane hit so hard the running gear all came off, both sets of wheels, then the engines got torn off,” passenger Randy Hall said.
“It was surreal,” Wayne Ezekial of St. Andrews, N.S., said. “It was almost like I was in a movie looking forward and my first concern was the plane was gonna start breaking apart and the second thing was it was gonna catch fire.”
Spurway says the plane was under control when it made contact with the runway. Federal investigators have been called in to probe the incident.
Power was restored to the airport overnight and operations are resuming, but significant delays are expected.
As of 10 a.m. on Sunday, the airport said there was an issue preventing airlines from updating flight schedules on its website, and passengers were being advised to call their airlines directly for the latest information.
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Air Canada Flight 624 crash lands in Halifax; 23 sent to hospital | Globalnews.ca (http://globalnews.ca/news/1909898/breaking-air-canada-plane-hard-landing-on-runway-at-halifax-airport/)
It was a frightening landing for passengers on Air Canada Flight 624 arriving in Halifax from Toronto early Sunday morning.
The plane made a hard landing as it skidded off a runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport during a snowstorm.
Air Canada confirmed 23 passengers and crew were sent to hospital, but there were no serious injuries reported and 18 have since been released. Thirteen were sent to Capital Health-run hospitals while 10 were sent to either the IWK Health Centre in Halifax or the Colchester Regional Hospital in Truro, N.S.
AC624 had 133 passengers and five crew members on board. It’s believed the plane hit a power line and then skidded, leading to a mass power outage at the airport. A direct link between the power outage and the hard landing have not been confirmed by airport officials.
The airplane was an Airbus A320, the same type involved in the deliberate crashing of a Germanwings flight over France last week.
READ MORE: A look at the safety record of the A320
Air Canada said more of its management staff have arrived in Halifax on Sunday to help, but did not confirm how many.
Officials from the Transportation Safety Board are coming from Ottawa and expect to hold a news conference at 6 p.m.
He says the Airport Authority can’t comment on the RCMP or TSB investigation, they can only give updates on the runway conditions and airport operations.
Airport spokesman Peter Spurway said the airport was closed to all traffic after the accident.
“We don’t know if weather was a factor,” Spurway said. “Crews had been clearing snow all day.”
Passenger Gordon Murray said he was calm despite the horrific experience.
“We just hit hard and things broke up,” he said. He added he feels fortunate to be alive considering what could have been.
“Just before we hit there was a big ball of light. It hit like a hard landing and we bounced and we skidded.”
Eleven-year-old Leon Yu wasn’t sure what was happening at the time, but recalls the plane “sliding everywhere.”
“A couple minutes later they just told us to get out of the plane,” he said.
Some passengers told Global News they saw an engine fall off during the landing. “The airplane hit so hard the running gear all came off, both sets of wheels, then the engines got torn off,” passenger Randy Hall said.
“It was surreal,” Wayne Ezekial of St. Andrews, N.S., said. “It was almost like I was in a movie looking forward and my first concern was the plane was gonna start breaking apart and the second thing was it was gonna catch fire.”
Spurway says the plane was under control when it made contact with the runway. Federal investigators have been called in to probe the incident.
Power was restored to the airport overnight and operations are resuming, but significant delays are expected.
As of 10 a.m. on Sunday, the airport said there was an issue preventing airlines from updating flight schedules on its website, and passengers were being advised to call their airlines directly for the latest information.