Landing gear collapses after flight touches down in Toronto
Last Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2007 | 8:31 PM ET
The Canadian Press
An Air Canada plane ran into trouble when its landing gear collapsed Sunday at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport, but no one was injured, airport officials said.
After the CRJ-100 regional jet aircraft touched down, its main landing gear buckled while the plane was moving from the active runway onto a taxiway, Air Canada spokeswoman Manon Stuart said.
The Air Canada Jazz CRJ-100 sits at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport on Sunday after its main landing gear collapsed after touching down.
(CBC)
The 37 passengers and three crew members aboard Flight AC8911 were not injured, Stuart said.
Everyone was released following medical examinations at the airport, and some passengers continued on to connecting flights, she said.
The incident is being investigated by the Transportation Safety Board.
A local Toronto television station reported that the Jazz jet, operated by a regional subsidiary of Air Canada, touched down on runway 6 and was parked on a nearby taxiway.
The station said that both the runway and the taxiway were closed, pending the investigation.
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