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The 7

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The 7

The Washington Post

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Tuesday briefing: Delta plane crash in Toronto; Elon Musk’s DOGE; Pope Francis; ‘Gulf of America’; winter storm; and more


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0:00.0

Just so you are, there's people outside walk around the aircraft there.

0:07.0

Yeah, we've got a aircraft. There's upside down and burning.

0:10.0

A Delta Airlines regional jet crashed at a Toronto airport.

0:15.0

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

0:18.0

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, February 18th. Let's get you caught up with

0:22.5

today's seven stories. A Delta flight from Minneapolis crashed while landing at Toronto

0:31.5

Pearson International Airport yesterday. The plane flipped upside down on the snow-covered tarmac. At the top of the show,

0:40.1

you heard audio from air traffic control describing the incident. Videos shared online captured

0:45.5

a chaotic scene as flight attendants evacuated the plane and passengers crawled out of the wreckage.

0:52.4

Remarkably, all 76 passengers and four crew members survived the

0:57.2

accident. But Delta said that 18 passengers were taken to the hospital with injuries, and three of

1:03.5

them were critically injured. It's not known why the plane flipped. Toronto Pearson Fire Chief

1:09.9

Todd Aiken spoke to the press yesterday about

1:12.5

conditions at the airport at the time of the crash. This is an active investigation.

1:18.3

It's very early on. It's really important that we do not speculate. What we can say is the runway

1:25.9

was dry and there was no crosswind conditions.

1:29.3

This incident comes at a time of heightened security of flight safety,

1:33.2

following a mid-air collision near a D.C. airport last month.

1:37.1

The Trump administration said this weekend that a team from Elon Musk's SpaceX company

1:42.2

would help envision ways to overhaul the nation's aging

1:45.7

air traffic control systems.

1:51.2

The acting head of Social Security quit after clashing with Elon Musk's Doge team.

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