{"id":91229,"date":"2017-02-25T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91229"},"modified":"2017-02-25T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:26:44","slug":"tsb-investigating-after-plane-leaves-runway-while-landing-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/25\/tsb-investigating-after-plane-leaves-runway-while-landing-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"TSB investigating after plane leaves runway while landing in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91230\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91230\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-45.png\" alt=\"Air Canada spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur says the aircraft's landing gear left the runway for a short distance when landing Friday night. (Photo: BriYYZ\/ Flickr)\" width=\"641\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-45.png 641w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-45-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Canada spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur says the aircraft&#8217;s landing gear left the runway for a short distance when landing Friday night. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bribri\"> BriYYZ\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after an Air Canada plane briefly left the runway while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Air Canada spokeswoman Isabelle Arthur says the aircraft&#8217;s landing gear left the runway for a short distance when landing Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Flight 623 from Halifax was carrying 118 people and no injuries were reported, the TSB said Saturday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A320 will be thoroughly examined and the TSB has obtained the flight recorders and gathered information about the weather conditions, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Varian of Burlington, Ont., says he was one of the 112 passengers aboard the flight when the plane lurched left off the runway and came to a \u201cvery sudden stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Varian says passengers were thrown forward in their seats and a few oxygen masks dropped. He noticed brown and black debris on his window, which he says may have come from a blown-out tire beneath him<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could see that clearly there was a lot of mud on the underbelly and the left-hand side of the plane,\u201d he says. \u201cThe tires were completely blown out on the left-hand wheel &#8230; but the plane didn&#8217;t appear significantly damaged beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Varian says emergency responders were on the scene within minutes and it took about an hour and a half for passengers to be shuttled to a nearby terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The TSB said damage to the aircraft appeared to be minor and five runway landing lights were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said its investigators must examine all the information before drawing any conclusions, noting it&#8217;s too early to speculate about the contributing factors that led to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after an Air Canada plane briefly left the runway while landing at Toronto &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[15780,12264,15779,15778],"class_list":["post-91229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-air-canada-plane","tag-runway","tag-toronto-pearson-airport","tag-transportation-safety-board","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}