Investigation after flight crash lands in Halifax
Air Canada has confirmed that 23 passengers and crew were taken to hospital after one of its A320 aircraft crash landed in snow at Halifax international airport in Nova Scotia.
All but one of the injured have now been released from hospital following observation and treatment.
Flight AC624 arrived at Halifax, from Toronto, with 133 passengers and five crew on board in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Local reports say the A320 touched down and then skidded into a power pylon, severely damaging its nose, engine and wing.
The flight had been holding west of Halifax prior to landing, waiting for the visibility to improve in bad weather.
"We at Air Canada are greatly relieved that no one was critically injured, yet we fully appreciate this has been a very unsettling experience for our customers and their families, as well as our employees, and we are focused on caring for all those affected," said Air Canada’s chief operating officer Klaus Goersch.
"We will also fully cooperate with the Transportation Safety Board as it begins an investigation to determine the cause."
The airline said its management personnel have arrived in Halifax to provide assistance to passengers and their families.
The incident knocked out the power at Halifax Stanfield International Airport but this has now been restored.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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