By David Shepherdson
(Reuters) -Air Lines Ed Bastiian’s executive director said on Wednesday the pilots on the regional aircraft, which turned upside down when landing in Toronto this week, were experienced and familiar with flying in winter.
“There is one level of safety in Delta,” Bastian told CBS Mornings in an interview. “All these pilots train for these conditions.”
On Monday, on the day of the crash, Toronto Pierson Airport was engaged in strong winds and frigid temperatures when the airlines tried to bounce after a big snowstorm over the weekend.
Bastian called a video of the accident, which wounded 21 of the 80 people on board, “horrifying”, but praised the actions of the crew of the flight to quickly evacuate the aircraft.
“That’s what we train,” Bastian said. “We are training for this continuously.”
Delta said that only one of the 21 passengers remained hospitalized on Wednesday. Everyone wounded is expected to survive.
The plane was removed from the scene of its track on Wednesday night, Delta said.
The airline said it offers reputation payments of $ 30,000 to all passengers who will not affect their legal rights, including their ability to judge the carrier.
The Canada Transport Safety Council said in a statement that investigators were conducting interviews and had downloaded data from the restored black boxes that were being analyzed.
Two tracks remain closed at the Toronto Airport in Toronto, including the busiest track in the country, with the remains of a 16-year-old regional CRJ900 aircraft made by the Canada bombardment still at the airport.
Investigators will look at the track before the site is cleaned and released to the airport to return to operations, TSB said.
The crash has reduced the capacity of the largest airport in Canada, which has a departure limit for its three other operating tracks, said the Toronto Pierson Duty Manager Jake Kitting in front of the News Channel CP24.
Toronto Pearson said in an X publication that at 7am (1200 GMT) on Wednesday, about 5% of its departure flights and 6% of its arriving flights were canceled.
The senior investigator of TSB Ken Webster said that after the initial impact on the track, parts of the CRJ900 aircraft were separated and a fire had occurred.
In a video showing the descent of the aircraft, the landing appeared flat and did not show the regular “flame” of the jet, where the pilots pull the nose up to increase the terrain just before pressing, experts said.
Webster sounded other aviation safety employees, saying it was too early to say what happened with a flight 4819 from Mineapolis-SV. Paul. Air crash is usually caused by many factors.