{"id":57046,"date":"2025-03-06T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/06\/pearson-crash-outcome-was-a-miracle-decades-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:26:54","slug":"pearson-crash-outcome-was-a-miracle-decades-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/06\/pearson-crash-outcome-was-a-miracle-decades-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson crash outcome was a \u2018miracle\u2019 decades in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\" class=\"article-header article-header--story\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" data-aqa=\"nav-breadcrumb\">\n<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/p>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">News<\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Transportation<\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Airlines<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"article-header__detail\">\n<div class=\"article-header__detail__texts\">\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">Monette Pasher: Airline industry&#8217;s constant preoccupation with safety paid off on Toronto runway<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p><span class=\"published-date__since\">Published Mar 06, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"updated-date__since\">Last updated 23\u00a0minutes ago<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"published-date__word-count\">4 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta__bottom\">\n<div class=\"bookmark-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover\" data-aqa=\"popover\" data-click-to-appear=\"True\" data-container=\"\" data-container-offset=\"\" data-no-style=\"\" data-popover-component=\"\" data-position=\"top\" data-sticky=\"\" data-tail-offset=\"200\" data-tail-position=\"right\"><button class=\"popover__trigger bookmark-button\"><span class=\"save-article-button save-article-button--default\" title=\"Save article\" data-article-id=\"54eab93a-6c22-4dc6-9cf6-8d8d799d390d\" data-evt-skip-click=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<div aria-describedby=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\" class=\"popover__content\" hidden=\"\" role=\"dialog\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__text\" id=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\">\n<div class=\"bookmark__popover__content\">\n<p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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Fire and emergency crews rushed to the scene.\u00a0 Flight attendants helped survivors flee the wreckage. Inquiries from media poured in. And observers wandered the scene, taking notes and finding tiny improvements in case the real thing ever came to pass.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\"><span>No, this wasn\u2019t the crash scene you were thinking of. It was a mock exercise that took place at Toronto Pearson in 2023, involving hundreds of airport and airline staff, first responders and government officials. The airport hosted another\u00a0of its regular\u00a0exercises\u00a0in tabletop form<b>\u00a0<\/b>just a few months ago. 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Our airports are required to develop comprehensive emergency plans, control rooms and training for a wide variety of scenarios, and Transport Canada mandates regular testing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Our airport teams are also among the world\u2019s top experts in dealing with winter weather, a constant factor for commercial flight in this country. We have world-leading de-icing facilities, using techniques that have been improving for almost a century, both on land and in the air \u2013\u2014 much has been learned from previous winter incidents where wing ice was deemed to be a factor, such as those at Gander, NL, in 1985 and Dryden, Ont., in 1989.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Canadian airports also monitor their runways constantly, assessing surface conditions and watching for foreign object debris, especially during winter operations. On a clear weather day like the one of the Delta crash, staff across the country would have been tracking all this and relaying information in real time to Nav Canada air traffic controllers and the pilots of all inbound flights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_4\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment3653585057506189680052928805601280\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 4<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-4\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"4\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-4\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p><span>In many cases, the outcome of a crash landing depends not just on the airport but on heavily trained airline staff. Pilots make critical decisions about whether and how to land given the local conditions and the capabilities of their planes. And for every miraculous feat of piloting, there are examples where highly trained flight attendants have stepped in to guide passengers from a stricken plane to safety, as Delta\u2019s did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That training is critical, because airport firefighters are mandated to prioritize extinguishing fire before rescue work. This is different from firefighting in buildings, because most buildings aren\u2019t laden with combustible jet fuel. Of course, airport firefighters are fully trained to enter an aircraft when necessary, but putting out the fire is the first priority, with passengers meant to evacuate the plane as quickly as possible under the guidance of a professional flight crew. Videos of the Delta crash at Toronto Pearson appear to show this dynamic working as it should. Canadian airports consistently meet, and often exceed, federal safety standards.<span\/><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_5\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment1907633739514685664643182330118144\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 5<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-5\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"5\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-5\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\"><span>The planes themselves are also getting safer. Some commentators have speculated that lives were saved by the design of Delta\u2019s CRJ-900 (Canadian-designed by Bombardier), including its sturdy, fire-resistant seats and breakaway wings, which quickly separate the jet\u2019s cabin from its flammable fuel supply. Exactly what happened remains for investigators to say. But all modern aircraft designs are the heirs to decades of safety work by crash investigators. Accident probes by agencies like Canada\u2019s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) produce recommendations that are considered and acted on where feasible. Not all get adopted, but safety standards get ever-more stringent over time and they tend to spread. 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https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=lQK1D3AM0ebRFKZekODn7A&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=lQK1D3AM0ebRFKZekODn7A&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=lQK1D3AM0ebRFKZekODn7A&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"A Delta Air Lines plane that crashed and injured at least 18 passengers at Toronto Pearson International Airport is seen on February 18, 2025 in Toronto, Canada.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=80&sig=71x6R4BXi9iOX20jndlPXg\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=lQK1D3AM0ebRFKZekODn7A&ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=80&sig=71x6R4BXi9iOX20jndlPXg, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=192&strip=all&quality=80&sig=azyr_0Y_WZ1dLyVq5FG-dg 2x,\n                                             https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0221-mg-delta.jpg?h=288&strip=all&quality=80&sig=i00W90c7QdUCqeDIwprTTA 3x\" class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/><\/picture>\n<p><span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\">Delta offering US$30,000 to passengers of crash landing<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" u.s.=\"\" mid-air=\"\" collision=\"\" no=\"\" reason=\"\" to=\"\" panic=\"\" data-carousel-item=\"\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\"> <picture class=\"more-topic__item-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, 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https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"While there are concerns about air traffic controller shortages in Canada, flight volumes are managed so they're never overstretched, greatly reducing the chances of an incident.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=80&sig=pasRwdosxIYceCGzZYmqQQ\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=9GPMN7fRBeiVbmyp6iqHXg&ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=80&sig=pasRwdosxIYceCGzZYmqQQ, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=192&strip=all&quality=80&sig=zzet1bEluoxcm5byf20Arw 2x,\n                                             https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0131-mg-flight.jpg?h=288&strip=all&quality=80&sig=cApFFCEZ5uhghrbosU5w9Q 3x\" class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/><\/picture>\n<p><span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\">Deadly U.S. mid-air collision no reason to panic<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" to=\"\" train=\"\" air=\"\" traffic=\"\" controllers=\"\" amid=\"\" shortage=\"\" data-carousel-item=\"\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\"> <picture class=\"more-topic__item-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=GLUet_8Xw9ZTUNgG__os7A&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=GLUet_8Xw9ZTUNgG__os7A&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, 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https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=GLUet_8Xw9ZTUNgG__os7A&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"The process to become an air traffic professional is among the longest in aviation, topped only by pilots and a few other specialized jobs, the role demanding between 10 and 27 months of training.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=80&sig=yrohyT8FAnkKhoAJxi3Vlw\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=5&sig=GLUet_8Xw9ZTUNgG__os7A&ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=96&strip=all&quality=80&sig=yrohyT8FAnkKhoAJxi3Vlw, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=192&strip=all&quality=80&sig=B0Q0touEtASuob71GzWxiQ 2x,\n                                             https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0117-mg-cae.jpg?h=288&strip=all&quality=80&sig=QQp-6PRaFpxbJoIRT5yY3A 3x\" class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/><\/picture>\n<p><span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\">CAE to train air traffic controllers amid shortage<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-next\" data-carousel-next=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"next\" type=\"button\"\/><\/section>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_6\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment3885046969037568687147995501690880\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 6<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" 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Over the coming weeks, if you want to feel reassured, go beyond social media threads and conjecture and wait for the investigation. And then, watch to see what lessons and refinements are adopted by our industry. Canadian airports will continue, as they have always done, to reinvest back into modernizing flight innovation and leadership in safety standards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en-US\">\u2028<\/span>Monette Pasher is president of the Canadian Airports Council.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\"><em><strong>Bookmark our website and support our journalism:<\/strong> Don\u2019t miss the business news you need to know \u2014 add financialpost.com to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__share-group article-delimiter\" data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" data-evt-typ=\"page_scroll\">\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/>Pearson crash outcome was a \u2018miracle\u2019 decades in the making<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-06 14:26:54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links News Transportation Airlines Monette Pasher: Airline industry&#8217;s constant preoccupation with safety paid off on Toronto runway Published Mar 06, 2025 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Last updated 23\u00a0minutes ago \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 4&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0307-mg-crash.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216&sig=oLav_IkcpbC5WmibStBV6A","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}