Air Crash Investigation - Desperate Escape / Miracle Escape (S04E01)

Air France Flight 358, a flight from Paris, France, to Toronto, Canada, using an Airbus A340 airliner, departed Paris without incident at 11:53 UTC 2 August 2005, later touching down on runway 24L-06R at Toronto Pearson International Airport at 20:01 UTC (16:01 EDT). The aircraft failed to stop on the runway and plunged into the nearby Etobicoke Creek, coming to rest and bursting into flames approximately 300 metres past the end of the runway. The Airbus A340-300 had 309 people aboard, 297 passengers (two of them infants, without seat) and 12 crew, all of whom survived with only 12 sustaining serious injuries. The accident highlighted the role played by highly-trained flight attendants during an emergency situation.

Due to poor weather many flights departing and arriving at Pearson were cancelled, and many subsequent flights to Toronto Pearson were diverted to other Canadian airports in Ottawa, London, Hamilton and Winnipeg, and most of the larger aircraft were diverted to Montreal, as well as Syracuse, New York, and Buffalo, New York. Flights from Vancouver were turned back. Some 540 flights were cancelled.

The crash of Air France Flight 358 was the biggest crisis to hit Toronto Pearson since the airport's involvement in Operation Yellow Ribbon.

Jean Lapierre, the Canadian Minister of Transport, referred Flight 358 as a "miracle" because all of the passengers survived. Other press sources described the accident as the "Miracle in Toronto", the "Toronto Miracle", the "Miracle" Escape, and the Miracle of Runway 24L".

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Air Crash Investigation
• Air Emergency
• Mayday
• ACI
• Desperate Escape
• Miracle Escape
• Air France
• Flight 358
• Paris
• Airbus A340
• Runway Overrun
• Pilot Error
• spatial disorientation

[blondecat666]

Would be hard to be married to that woman.

[mjeshaw]

That man with the enormous tote bag and all the others who carried their hand luggage off the plane should be thoroughly ashamed off themselves. It's unbelievably selfish and stupid to endanger lives in an emergency for the sake of a few easily replaceable belongings. They should be forced to eat every piece of luggage they took, along with all the contents, by way of penance.

[dinieland]

why dislike? thumb up if you guys are strange to

[Ramdat555]

i like her..but feel sorry for her husband.,..

[john2rds]

What the hell the blonde bitch keep bitching every single shit ? =.=

[crispiegee1]

@mjeshaw Beautifully stated. I couldn't agree more.

[crispiegee1]

@blondecat666 LOL - I had the same thought about her. I can imagine being traumatized by the experience, but she is just a bit too dramatic. I liked the recollection of the man with the family... he is somber and non-dramatic.

[MLennholm]

@cendunsa As Piazzafan pointed out, you completely misunderstood what she was saying, and actually, at the end she says "Thank goodness, I'm here to be able to talk about it". Why would she say "Thank you God"? Perhaps she's an atheist like every rational, educated, sane, grown up person.

[nsakic]

The dickhead riding for free in the cockpit says "I've done this before.." .. uh.... no you haven't!

[canadahobby]

Fuck that ladys psycho..