The company mentioned in a press release on Tuesday night it had recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight knowledge recorder, which have been despatched to a laboratory for examination.
“It’s far too early to find out the reason for the accident,” the company mentioned.
Canada’s investigators can be assisted by the US Federal Aviation Administration and representatives from Delta and Mitsubishi, which bought the CRJ line of planes from Bombardier in 2019.
Accidents sustained within the crash ranged from “minor to vital, however not life-threatening”, Flint mentioned.
Delta mentioned 21 passengers have been transported to hospitals and up to now 19 had been released.
Paramedic providers informed AFP on Monday that three folks had been critically injured – a baby, a person in his 60s and a girl in her 40s.
BLACK SMOKE
The flight with 76 passengers and 4 crew was touchdown within the afternoon in Canada’s largest metropolis after a flight from Minneapolis within the US state of Minnesota.
The video posted to social media and verified by AFP was taken from the cockpit of one other jetliner ready on the tarmac.
It confirmed the aircraft coming in for a standard touchdown earlier than slamming into the runway, then sliding ahead in a roll to the proper, with its wings sheared off earlier than it stopped on its again.
Flames could possibly be seen taking pictures out of the fuselage and black smoke billowing out.
“Oh no no no no no,” the pilot is heard saying within the video that was laced with expletives.
Rescue providers responded, spraying water on the jet, whose underside was scraped and blackened.
Todd Aitken, the airport’s hearth chief, mentioned rescue groups noticed remoted fires after they acquired to the scene.
“They have been capable of rapidly knock down the spot fires”, and enter and search the aircraft, he informed reporters Tuesday.
A lot of the passengers had already “self-evacuated”, he added.
