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Delta Air Lines Flight Crashes At Toronto Airport, Injuring 8


Elise Golgowski, a traveler waiting to depart from Pearson, shared with HuffPost that the airport announced there had been an incident and had suspended all flights and flight check-ins.

Video from Golgowski showed an American Airlines employee at Pearson telling travelers at the check-in counter to “go on Twitter, TikTok ― you’ll see what happened. … We don’t have any information, but there was an incident that happened. That’s all we know.” The employee told travelers that some passengers may not be able to get on new flights until Wednesday.

The accident comes days after President Donald Trump began firing hundreds of FAA personnel hired for radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance. The union representing those employees, the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, said in a statement Saturday that it was a “hastily made decision.”

“This draconian action will increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already stretched thin,” the union said.

Monday’s crash and Trump’s gutting of the agency come just weeks after a commercial flight and a military helicopter collided in midair at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., and killed all 67 people on board.

Days before that tragic crash, Trump fired all the members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a panel tasked with airline and airport safety issues.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

Lydia O'Connor

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