Minor Injuries After Air Canada Flight Evacuated At Pearson
Posted March 23, 2010 12:33 pm.
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About 100 people on a Montreal-to-Toronto Air Canada flight had a scare today once the A-320 aircraft landed at Pearson International Airport.
The plane landed OK, but Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says once on the ground, the pilot discovered the steering wasn’t working properly. Fitzpatrick says it appears to have been a hydraulic issue and the pilot was unable to guide the aircraft to the gate.
He says an “acrid smell” was then detected in the passenger cabin and as a precaution, the flight crew “elected to evacuate the aircraft.”
Fitzpatrick says the 99 passengers slid down emergency chutes and were taken the short distance to the airport terminal by bus.
He says four people suffered “mostly scrapes and bruises” in the incident, but one man was taken to hospital as a precaution with a sore back.
Flight 433 landed at Pearson just after 9am ET.
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