A lecturer on aviation management at McGill University in Montreal is crediting the cabin crew of a Delta Air Lines jet that crashed and flipped over at Pearson Airport in Toronto this week for helping to save the lives of all 80 people on board.
John Gradek says the flight attendants are to be commended for ensuring that everyone on board had their seatbelts fastened as the flight was landing. Without that, the outcome might have been very different.
He says the flight attendants manage the cabin and make sure everyone is buckled in, and stay buckled in.
“To me, that was a key action that saved a lot of lives on that airplane.”
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The Transportation Safety Board has since recovered the aircraft’s black box and flight data recorder, which has been sent to a lab for analysis.
Airport CEO Deborah Flint
In an update provided yesterday, Pearson Airport CEO Deborah Flint said two people remained in hospital with critical, but non-life threatening injuries. The remaining 19 people taken to hospital after the crash have since been released.
Operations at the airport are back up and running, though delays may continue to be an issue over the coming days as investigators continue their work.
