Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for being here today. We're here to provide an update on the situation at Toronto Pearson today. Toronto Pearson president and CEO, Deborah Flint, will be speaking with us. We're also joined here today by Toronto Pearson Fire, Mississauga Fire, Peel Regional Paramedic Services, and Peel Police. Deborah will not be taking questions today, but we'd like to welcome her up at this time.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, very good. Thank you very much. Deborah Flint, president, CEO of Toronto. I've just come over from our emergency operations center and I'm here to give you a statement on what events transpired here today at Toronto Pearson. First and foremost, there was no loss of life, and this is in due part to our heroic and trained professionals, our first responders at the airport.
(00:48)
The facts of the matter of the event that happened at approximately 2:30 P.M. is Delta Airlines Flight 4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto, operated by subsidiary Endeavor Air, was involved in a single aircraft accident upon landing at Toronto Pearson. The other passengers were multinational. Airport emergency workers mounted a textbook response reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacuating the passengers. We stood up our emergency operation with Delta Airlines and representatives from fire, police, paramedics, security, and our federal agency partners.
(01:27)
Again, there were no fatalities. 17 injured passengers were quickly taken to local area hospitals. At this time, we do not know of any of those passengers having critical injuries. We immediately halted further arrivals and departures on our remaining three runways. Those runways were reopened at approximately 5:00 P.M. The other runways are remaining to serve the investigation, which will be carrying forward for the rest of tonight and into the next several days. These two runways will remain closed while the investigation takes place.
(02:06)
Again, we are very grateful that there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries. We are very focused on the care and the concern and the passengers and the crew, some of whom have already been reunified with their friends and their families. Others, we have in a comfortable place right here at the airport in an environment where they're getting a lot of care and support from my staff. Delta Airlines is also continuing to provide customer care and information for passengers.
(02:38)
No airport CEO wants to have these type of press conferences, but this is exactly what our emergency, our operations, and our first responder partners are all practiced and trained for. And again, this outcome is in due part to their heroic work and I thank them profusely. Our thoughts, prayers are with all, we're providing more information as it becomes available.
(03:04)
We do expect there'll be some operational impact and some delays at the airport over the next few days while the two airports remain closed for the investigation and we will be sharing information periodically. For those traveling, continue to look at our website and be in touch with your respective carrier as well. Thank you for your time today.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Thank you, Deborah. We're going to continue posting Toronto Pearson updates, operational updates, on our X account, so be sure to follow us there. Thank you all for joining us.