{"id":17620,"date":"2025-02-19T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/delays-plague-toronto-pearson-airport-as-crews-deal-with-backlog-from-crash-storms\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:16:21","slug":"delays-plague-toronto-pearson-airport-as-crews-deal-with-backlog-from-crash-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/delays-plague-toronto-pearson-airport-as-crews-deal-with-backlog-from-crash-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays plague Toronto Pearson airport as crews deal with backlog from crash, storms"},"content":{"rendered":"


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More delays and cancellations to and from Toronto Pearson airport<\/a> continue on Wednesday amid a backlog from the Delta plane crash<\/a> and two major winter storms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday morning, Pearson\u2019s arrival and departure boards show an overwhelming number of flights are delayed, with some even cancelled.<\/p>\n

The backlog comes after two consecutive winter storms hit the Toronto region on Thursday and Sunday, bringing a combined total snowfall amount to around 50 cm.<\/p>\n

Then, on Monday afternoon, Delta Air Lines flight 4819 travelling from Minneapolis to Toronto crash landed on the runway at Pearson, causing the aircraft to flip upside-down on its roof and catch on fire.<\/p>\n

There were no fatalities, however, 21 people, including a child, were taken to hospital from the crash. As of Tuesday morning, 19 of them were released and two remain hospitalized. Twenty-two of the 76 passengers were Canadian; the rest were multinational.<\/p>\n

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Video posted online showed passengers self-evacuating from the plane, walking onto a snowy tarmac.<\/p>\n

Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Tuesday they\u2019ve recovered the plane\u2019s black box and sent it off for analysis, but it\u2019s too soon to say what led to the crash.<\/p>\n

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Airport authorities said the wreckage of the aircraft was expected to remain on the runway for about 48 hours until the investigators finish their work.<\/p>\n

In a post to social media, the airport said it continued to see delays and cancellations on Wednesday among the 950 flights scheduled to arrive and depart. It said five per cent of departing flights and six per cent of arriving flights had been cancelled as of 7 a.m., but did not mention the percentage of flights that are delayed.<\/p>\n

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Deborah Flint, president and CEO of Pearson, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday and said the backlog comes after 221 flights were cancelled on Thursday, 75 on Friday, another 937 flights cancelled on Saturday, and 371 more flights cancelled on Sunday. Monday was supposed to be an operational recovery day for Pearson airport but due in part to the accident, another 462 flights were cancelled.<\/p>\n

Pearson is also without its longest east-west and north-south runways as the investigation into the crash continues.<\/p>\n

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One woman at the Toronto Pearson airport said she was schedule to fly from Toronto to Honduras on Sunday but her flight was cancelled because of weather.<\/p>\n