The Transportation Security Board of Canada is investigating an incident involving a airplane on the Halifax Stanfield Worldwide Airport, which one passenger described as a tough touchdown that sparked flames.
Nikki Valentine, who was on the PAL Airways flight, mentioned passengers felt a “massive rumble” upon touchdown Saturday night time.
“The cabin tilted, we saw sparks and then flames and then smoke started getting sucked into the cabin,” Valentine mentioned Sunday.
Airport spokesperson Tiffany Chase mentioned an Air Canada Specific flight operated by PAL Airways, arriving from St. John’s, Newfoundland, skilled an incident upon touchdown at roughly 9:30 p.m.
Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick mentioned the Bombardier Q400 airplane skilled a “suspected landing gear issue” after arrival and was unable to achieve the terminal.
An Air Canada Bombardier Q-400 turbo-prop jet plane.
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Fitzpatrick mentioned the crew and 73 passengers had been off-loaded by bus and no person on board was injured.
Valentine mentioned she is “especially thankful the pilot was able to get ahold of the situation very fast.”
The incident briefly halted flight exercise on the airport.
As of Sunday afternoon, Valentine and different passengers had been nonetheless with out the luggage they had been instructed to go away on the airplane. Valentine mentioned she contacted Air Canada, who instructed her that it may very well be as much as three extra days earlier than their luggage are returned because the investigation into the incident continues.
“A lot of people have things like house keys or wallets they needed and couldn’t get,” she mentioned.
“It’s all proper procedure, and I’d rather the inconvenience (of missing bags) than if anything bad had happened, of course, but it’s still tough.”
