A full contingent of 12 to 15 Canadian Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene today at Halifax’s Stanfield International Airport, trying to establish what happened when an Air Canada Airbus crash landed early Sunday morning in a snow storm.
The flight from Toronto came down 335 metres short of the runway. It struck an antenna array, losing its nose and landing gear.
The plane then slid down the runway on its belly at for about 300 metres.
All 138 passengers and crew aboard the plane survived. About two dozen suffered mainly minor injuries.
The TSB regional manager of air investigations, Mike Cunningham, says the Monday’s main focus will be on surveying the accident site and recovering pieces of wreckage.
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