June 25, 2012  

flygc.info – Air Crash Investigation – Miracle Escape, Air France Flight 358


Miracle Escape

Air France Flight 358, a flight from Paris, France, to Toronto, Canada, using an Airbus A340 airliner, departed Paris without incident at 11:53 UTC 2 August 2005, later touching down on runway 24L at Toronto Pearson International Airport at 20:01 UTC (16:01 EDT). The aircraft failed to stop on the runway and plunged into the nearby Etobicoke Creek, coming to rest and bursting into flames approximately 300 metres past the end of the runway. The Airbus A340-300 had 309 people aboard, 297 passengers (two of them infants, without seat) and 12 crew, all of whom survived with only 12 sustaining serious injuries. The accident highlighted the role played by highly-trained flight attendants during an emergency situation.

Due to poor weather many flights departing and arriving at Pearson were cancelled, and many subsequent flights to Toronto Pearson were diverted to other Canadian airports in Ottawa, London,Hamilton and Winnipeg, and most of the larger aircraft were diverted to Montreal,[1][dead link] as well as Syracuse, New York,[2]and Buffalo, New York. Flights from Vancouver were turned back. Some 540 flights were cancelled. The crash of Air France Flight 358 was the biggest crisis to hit Toronto Pearson since the airport’s involvement in Operation Yellow Ribbon.

Jean Lapierre, the Canadian Minister of Transport, referred to Flight 358 as a “miracle” because all of the passengers survived.[3] Other press sources described the accident as the “Miracle in Toronto”,[3][4] the “Toronto Miracle“,[5] the ”Miracle” Escape,[6] and the Miracle of Runway 24L”.[7]


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