{"id":241665,"date":"2025-02-18T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/passengers-recall-moments-before-delta-plane-crash-at-toronto-airport-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:43:10","slug":"passengers-recall-moments-before-delta-plane-crash-at-toronto-airport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/passengers-recall-moments-before-delta-plane-crash-at-toronto-airport-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers Recall Moments Before Delta Plane Crash at Toronto Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/18\/multimedia\/18toronto-crash-victims-gcfv\/18toronto-crash-victims-gcfv-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Passengers Recall Moments Before Delta Plane Crash at Toronto Airport\" title=\"Passengers Recall Moments Before Delta Plane Crash at Toronto Airport\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All 80 passengers and crew members on board the Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis that crashed and flipped over at Toronto\u2019s airport are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two passengers described what seemed like a routine descent that suddenly turned them upside-down.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2cc70b77\">Pete Koukov<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Koukov, 28, a professional skier from Colorado, was on his way to Toronto to film a ski movie. Nothing seemed amiss during the final descent, he said in an interview, until the wheels hit the ground and the plane skidded on its right side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From his window seat on the left side of the plane, Mr. Koukov said, he saw flames as the plane hit the ground. \u201cI unbuckled pretty fast and kind of lowered myself to the floor, which was the ceiling,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople were panicking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plane ended up belly side up. He shared <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DGMEswSp9Vk\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">footage on Instagram<\/a> of the moment he and other passengers clambered across seats and out an emergency exit, onto a snow-streaked runway.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-532512dc\">Pete Carlson<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Carlson, a paramedic, was traveling to a conference in Toronto. Passengers were told that there had been strong winds, but he said the crash jolted him from what began as a routine descent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOne minute you\u2019re landing, kind of waiting to see your friends and your people. And the next minute you\u2019re physically upside-down and just really turned around,\u201d he told the CBC, the Canadian public broadcaster. \u201cIt was cement and metal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the plane lost a wing and rolled, there was a palpable camaraderie in the cabins. \u201cEveryone on that plane suddenly became very close in terms of how to help one another, how to console one another, and that was powerful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He noticed a woman who had ended up under a seat and a mother and a boy who were sitting on the ceiling of the aircraft, which was now its floor. He had no idea what state any of them were in, he said. \u201cMy fatherly instinct and background as a paramedic kind of kicked in,\u201d he said, making him focus on ensuring that they all got off the plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jet fuel, he said, was running down the airplane\u2019s windows. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Carlson, who had a scrape visible on his head, said that after leaving the plane, he had tried to move as far from it as possible once he noticed that a wing was missing and heard sounds of an explosion. After putting his coat on a fellow passenger, he snapped a photo with his phone and sent it to family, friends and colleagues inquiring about his safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is my reality right now: down on the tarmac and alive, which is amazing,\u201d he said, recounting how he felt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A friend who had traveled to the airport to pick him up found his way to the tarmac and began treating others. Passengers with injuries were quickly placed on buses and transported to safety, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe most powerful part of today was there was just people, no countries, no nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was just people together, helping each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/world\/canada\/toronto-plane-crash-passengers.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 80 passengers and crew members on board the Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis that crashed and flipped over at Toronto\u2019s airport are expected to survive. Two passengers described what seemed like a routine descent that suddenly turned them upside-down. Pete Koukov Mr. Koukov, 28, a professional skier from Colorado, was on his way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/18\/multimedia\/18toronto-crash-victims-gcfv\/18toronto-crash-victims-gcfv-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169293,804,740,21,9194,187584,167650,187744,16594,22147,200,11375,25915,187586],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241667,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241665\/revisions\/241667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}