Authorities to release investigation report on 2015 Halifax crash landing
HALIFAX — Two years after an Air Canada jet crash-landed in a blizzard at Halifax’s airport, injuring 25 people, the results of a Transportation Safety Board investigation will be released Thursday.
Flight 624 landed about 200 metres short of runway 05 at Halifax Stanfield International Airport shortly after midnight on March 29, 2015, as it approached in gusty winds and heavy snowfall.
The twin-engine Airbus 320-200 bounced into the air and crashed near the runway threshold before careening along the tarmac for another 570 metres. An engine and the plane’s landing gear were ripped from the airframe amid a shower of sparks and leaking fuel.
The TSB said in a news release Tuesday that the report on what it terms a “collision with terrain” will be released at a news conference at a Halifax hotel.