WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – A two-hour flight between Minneapolis and Toronto ended with an airplane overturned, one wing and the tail detached, and passengers exiting onto the snowy tarmac upside down.
Toronto-Pearson Airport’s President and CEO Deborah Flint said Toronto saw two snowstorms in the four days leading up to the crash, leaving 20 inches of snow on the ground.
“That is actually not typical,” Flint said.
However, she said on Monday the weather was clear. Delta said everybody survived the Monday crash.
It’s the fourth major crash of a passenger airplane in the last month.
Earlier in February, a commuter plane crashed in Alaska, killing 10 people on board. In late January, an air ambulance jet crashed, killing seven people, and a military Black Hawk Helicopter and a passenger jet collided in D.C., killing 67, days apart.
Some Democrats went as far as blaming the Trump administration for the recent crashes. They fired hundreds of FAA employees.
“The administration and the FAA need to look at this from another perspective as to how it’s not only affected these families and these people, but how it affects aviation safety,” said Dave Spero, the President of Professional Aviation Safety Specialists. “It introduces risk into the national aerospace system. And introducing risk is the last thing that you want to do.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy defended the cuts. He said out of 45,000 FAA employees, less than 400 were let go. He said none of the people fired were air traffic controllers or critical safety personnel.
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