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Air Canada Plane Skids Off Halifax Runway; 23 Injured

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aircandahalifaxmishap?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1427640342649The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (HALIFAX, Nova Scotia) — Twenty-three passengers and crew members on board an A320 Air Canada flight were hospitalized Sunday when the plane experienced a hard landing at the Halifax international airport.

The plane, incoming from Toronto, skidded off the runway upon landing early Sunday local time, said Halifax Stanfield International Airport spokesman Peter Spurway. He said the pilots were in control of the plane up until the hard landing.

All but one of the injured passengers had been released from the hospital as of Sunday afternoon, according to Air Canada.

The cause has not been determined, an Air Canada spokesman said Sunday afternoon. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating.

Spurway said there was snow on the runway but it hadn’t yet been determined whether that was a factor in the hard landing. The airport also suffered a power interruption around the same time of the incident, but it was unclear whether the two events were related.

“It was safe to land in this weather,” an An Air Canada spokesman said.

The pilots are 15-year veterans of Air Canada, the airline spokesman added, with “many years” of experience flying the A320.

He said that the plane was checked Saturday, which was its most recent scheduled maintenance check.

The airport was closed to all air traffic for several hours after the crash before reopening.



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