00:00The crew of Delta Flight 4819 heroically led passengers to safety, evacuating a jet that had overturned on the runway, on landing, that was amidst smoke and fire.
00:13I thank each and every one of these heroes, every flight attendant and crew member on Delta Flight 4819.
00:21I also thank every flight attendant and crew member across the industry.
00:25Thank you for all that you do every day and every night in service of safe air travel.
00:31At the time, there were 21 injured passengers, ranging from minor to critical but not life-threatening injuries.
00:39A total of 19 passengers went to the local hospitals, with two more going to hospitals in the time period after.
00:47At this time, Delta Airlines has reported that 19 of those passengers have been released and two remain hospitalized.
00:55Our thoughts go out to all of the passengers impacted and their families.
01:00From last Thursday to Sunday, Toronto Pearson saw extreme conditions, two separate snowstorms.
01:07On Thursday and Sunday, we got more than 20 inches, 50 centimetres of accumulated snow.
01:14That is actually not typical. In fact, it is more snow within that time window than we received in all of last winter.
01:22Monday was a clear day, though, and it was an operational recovery day for Toronto Pearson, with 1,006 scheduled flights.
01:31The results yesterday, in due part to the accident, were 462 scheduled flights cancelled and 544 flights operated.
01:41We are currently without use of our longest east-west and north-south runways.
01:47This and ongoing expected additional weather conditions today will affect how fast we recover operations, particularly with departure of aircraft.
01:58We do expect that the investigators on site will be reviewing the aircraft on its current configuration on the runway for the next 48 hours.
02:08Air travel remains the safest form of transportation. We are proud of that record here.
02:13And at a time like these, we're very grateful and thankful of how the community and the industry comes together as one.
02:20This would not be a time for us to have theory or to speculate on what caused the crash.
02:26So, as I shared, we have a number of agencies that are here that are responsible for doing a thorough and full and complete investigation to determine all the causal factors.
02:36And we are looking forward to getting those results and to sharing those, and those will be shared very publicly once they are received.
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