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Manitoba Environment and Climate Change Environmental Approvals Branch Box 35, 14 Fultz Boulevard Winnipeg MB R3Y 0L6 TOP NEWS A3 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2025 ● ASSOCIATE EDITOR, NEWS: STACEY THIDRICKSON 204-697-7292 ● CITY.DESK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM Canadian-made aircraft’s design, Toronto emergency crews credited Delta crash: how did everyone survive? I N Monday’s dramatic Delta Air Lines crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport, the regional jet clipped a wing, flipped upside down in the snow and reportedly caused an explosion at the scene. Yet, crucially, all 80 people on board survived, something aviation experts attributed to aircraft design and the responses of the cabin crew and rescue teams. “Quite a few things went well here,” Graham Braithwaite, director of aero- space and aviation at Britain’s Cran- field University, said in an interview. “The fact that there were no fatalities with an aircraft left upside down on a runway tells you a lot about how the restraints worked, how the aircraft de- sign worked, how the rescue teams re- sponded and how the cabin crew played their role.” Passengers on the plane that depart- ed from Minneapolis described feeling a hard landing before going sideways and skidding, with the plane eventual- ly coming to rest upside down. Video of the crash showed smoke billowing from a snowy runway and a burst of orange flames. Delta said Tuesday that 21 pas- sengers were brought to hospitals with injuries, and all but two had been re- leased by that morning. While investigators are still working to determine why the plane crashed — and a mechanical issue cannot yet be ruled out — engineers design aircraft to be as “survivable” as possible in the case of an accident, Braithwaite said. “For a scenario like this, it’s about minimizing the injury to people on board,” a subset of aircraft design called “crashworthiness,” he said. “Crashworthiness is what would have made sure the seats didn’t detach from the floors and that the lap belts kept the passengers secure,” Braithwaite said. “But it’s also things like making sure if a passenger hits the seat in front of them, that surface has been made in such a way that it would make it less likely someone would suffer a serious injury.” Eyewitness accounts suggest that the seatbelts did manage to keep many pas- sengers secure in the immediate after- math of the crash. Pete Carlson, a paramedic who was on the flight, told CBC that he found himself “physically upside down” in the aftermath of the crash, before he took his seatbelt off. Another eyewit- ness, John Nelson, told CNN that im- mediately after the crash, “I was up- side down; everybody else was there as well.” Michael J. McCormick, an associate professor of air traffic management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, also credited aircraft design for the lack of fatalities. “The fact that 80 people survived an event like this is a testament to the en- gineering and the technology, the regu- latory background that would go into creating a system where somebody can actually survive something that not too long ago would have been fatal,” he told Reuters. Aircraft design also takes into ac- count the need for passengers to evacu- ate quickly and without assistance, Braithwaite said, noting that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration man- dates that any airplane carrying more than 44 passengers must be able to be evacuated within 90 seconds. However, in this case, the role of the cabin crew was particularly important, given that the plane flipped over. “The design criteria is you should be able to get everybody off the air- plane in 90 seconds or less … but not in an upside-down aircraft. There were more complications in place here,” Braithwaite said. Toronto Pearson Fire Chief Todd Ait- ken said in Tuesday news briefing that first responders “were able to quickly knock down” spot fires, and most of the passengers had “self-evacuated” when emergency crews reached them. Videos shared online captured the chaotic aftermath of the crash, with seat cushions and debris scattered across the overturned cabin. Flight at- tendants walked along what was once the ceiling, shouting for passengers to “drop everything” and exit through an emergency exit door as emergency crews helped passengers crawl out of the wreckage. In a number of his crash investiga- tions, Braithwaite found that flight attendants had to shout out simple in- structions such as “unfasten your seat- belts” to work the passengers out of their panic. “It seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but in the panic people ex- perience, it can be hard for people to figure out what to do next,” he said. Braithwaite applauded the cabin crew members for their quick work in getting everyone off the plane. “These people put their lives on the line — they’re the last people off the airplane, and I think sometimes we for- get that,” he said. “They serve us drink and food, and that’s wonderful, but their real function is to keep you safe.” Eyewitness accounts also suggested that some of the passengers worked to help each other unclip from their seats. Carlson, the passenger who is a paramedic, said he tried to help others on board and could see passengers “checking one another out, making de- cisions about whether we would help one another with their straps or if by doing that, would they be landing on somebody else?” The International Civil Aviation Or- ganization’s Airport Services Manual states that the objective of airport fire and emergency services should be to achieve response times “preferably not exceeding two minutes.” Aviation and local officials have thanked emergency responders, cred- iting them with a fast response. “There was no loss of life, and this is in due part to our heroic and trained professionals, our first responders at the airport,” Toronto Pearson president and CEO Deborah Flint said during a news briefing Monday evening. Offi- cials on Tuesday described an emer- gency response that arrived within minutes of the crash. “Airport emergency workers mount- ed a textbook response, reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacu- ating the passengers,” Flint added. At the Tuesday news conference, a fire official from the nearby city of Mississauga said their crew received a crash alarm directly from the Toronto airport. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow wrote on social media: “I’m relieved to learn that all passengers and crew are ac- counted for after today’s plane crash at Toronto Pearson. Thank you to the first responders, crew and airport staff for their quick actions and commitment to keeping everyone safe.” Braithwaite said it was “a relief that everybody survived.” “From the pictures, you would expect to see something different, but I think it’s a testament to the incredible hard work from all sorts of people that re- sults were what they were.” — The Washington Post VIVIAN HO CHRIS YOUNG / THE CANADIAN PRESS Flights resumed Tuesday despite the closure of two runways at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport due to Monday’s crash of Delta Flight 4819. CTV HANDOUT / THE CANADIAN PRESS The aircraft landed upside-down after breaking off a wing and flipping on landing Monday. Talks have continued for months between Canada and the European Union on a secu- rity and defence partnership. It would be similar to pacts Brussels signed with Japan and Korea covering joint naval exercises, and with countries outside the EU regarding underwater infrastructure. Joly said the negotiations between Brussels and Ottawa “are going at a good pace.” She said that any agreement likely would focus on “defence procurement and also being able to share more intelligence and information,” given that Canada and many EU members are already part of the NATO military alli- ance. She said that while Europeans are recep- tive to the idea of closer ties with Canada, many don’t fully grasp how the Trump ad- ministration is challenging Canada’s econo- my. That was Joly’s answer when asked why few national leaders have spoken out against Trump’s threats against Canada. “Based on my conversations with many Eu- ropean colleagues, many of them are not nec- essarily completely aware of what is going on, first in the U.S. and secondly in Canada. Every country in the world is looking at its own reality,” she said. “I think that it was a wake-up call for Euro- peans to hear what we’re going through.” Joly also added that she did not raise Trump’s comments about Canada being absorbed by the U.S. with Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a meeting with G7 col- leagues in Germany. She said she did respond when some U.S. senators “were making jokes about it” on the sidelines of a summit in Munich. “I said it’s not funny. And this is a question of respect of our country, respect of our lead- ers, and respect of our people. And I always answer the same thing, which is (that) we will be the best neighbour, the best allies — but we will never be a state and we’ll never be a colony,” she said. “Canadians are proud people, a courageous people, and they don’t accept any form of rhetoric that is against our own identity as a country.” Joly is heading to South Africa for a meeting of G20 foreign ministers, where she will try to determine how Canada’s position chairing the G7 might reflect the priorities of the larger G20 group. — The Canadian Press UKRAINE ● FROM A1 CHRISTINNE MUSCHI / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly did not raise Trump’s 51st state claim with U.S. secretary of state. ;