Sunday 29 March 2015

Another Air Mishap: Air Canada crash lands at Halifax Airport smashing through power line and skidding off runway

 The Airbus A320 skidded off the runway at the Halifax airport in bad weather, and 25 people were taken to a hospital for observation and treatment

Twenty-five people have been hospitalised after an Air Canada flight made a crash landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport earlier this morning.
It has been reported the Airbus A320 crashed into a power line on landing, and then skidded off the runway.
The airline said a preliminary count showed Flight AC624 from Toronto had 132 passengers and five crew members, and had set out from Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The crash landing caused extensive damage to the win and nose of the Air Canada plane
A passenger on the plane, Treasure Addison-Mills, speaking to NBC News said there were 'people with bloody faces', and that it 'took a long time being stranded on the runway with snow coming down.'
'We are thankful no serious injuries have been reported,' Halifax Stanfield International Airport tweeted. The airport said its airfield remained closed.
Another passenger on the flight Mike Magnus, a businessman, said the plane was at the 'furthest tip of the airport' when it stopped. He says he heard that the plane may have clipped a power line that caused the power outage at the airport.
'It was so chaotic at the time. I'm pretty sure the landing gear broke on it. The engine on my side popped off,' the 60-year-old from Halifax.
Passengers Randy Hall, left, and Lianne Clark, from Mount Uniacke, Canada stand waiting at an airport hotel after Air Canada flight 624 left the runway
Magnus believes at least one engine was torn off the Airbus A320. He says the nose of the plane was sheared off and he believes the wings were damaged too.
He added that the snow that covered the runway likely deadened any sparks that may have caused a fire and engulfed the plane.
'The snow caused it and the snow saved it,' he said. 
How Air Canada reported the information originally - since then 25 people are reported to have gone to hospitalWorried friends and family of passengers kept a close eye on the latest developmentsMike Magnus was a passenger on board the Air Canada flight that crashed through a power wire




Thank God no lives were lost!




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