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00:00This video shows passengers evacuating from their plane after it crash-landed and flipped
00:05upside down at Toronto's Pearson Airport.
00:09As we made our descent and made touchdown it was just a very forceful event where all
00:17of a sudden everything just kind of went sideways and then next thing I know is kind of a blink
00:22and I'm upside down still strapped in.
00:25Everyone on that plane suddenly became very close in terms of how to help one another,
00:31how to console one another and that was powerful.
00:35The aircraft came down fast, landing so hard that it lost its right wing, then burst into
00:41flames on the runway.
00:43By some miracle no one was killed while 21 were injured.
00:47It's really important to recognise how grateful we are that there was no loss of life or life
00:53threatening injuries in yesterday's accident.
00:57The airport CEO said that their two longest runways remained closed as investigators examined
01:03the aircraft on site to try to determine what caused the accident.
01:08It's possible wintry weather conditions may have played a part.
01:12After days of record snowfall, the airport was experiencing blowing snow and gusts of
01:1765 kilometres an hour at the time of the crash.
01:21Questions also remain as to why the plane is missing its right wing.