With the summer months around the corner, many airports are still struggling to hold on as the COVID-19 pandemic halts many commercial flights in Atlantic Canada.
WestJet Flight 248 skidded off the end of a runway during a snowstorm at Halifax Stanfield. (Source: TSB)
HALIFAX The Transportation Safety Board says a passenger jet overshot the runway at the Halifax airport last year after its crew failed to recalculate wind and approach speed before switching runways.
None of the 172 passengers or six crew were hurt and there was no damage to WestJet Flight 248 after it skidded off the end of a runway during a snowstorm at Halifax Stanfield International Airport on Jan. 5, 2020.
In a news release issued today, the safety board says the crew of the Boeing 737-8CT aircraft that was arriving from Toronto requested the runway change because weather conditions had reduced visibility.
SYDNEY MINES, N.S. Arriving at Halifax Stanfield International Airport was anything but welcoming for Zach Lapenat and Lorna MacLean. The mother and son say Friday, May 7 is a day they felt like criminals in their own province. It was a pretty frightening experience, Lapenat says. It was terrifying. We were in shock and we remained that way for days after we got home. Lapenat was arriving from British Columbia, where he had lost his job due to the pandemic. His mother was waiting to pick him up. He had a job waiting in Cape Breton and says he took the necessary steps including safe check-ins, and a negative COVID test to be able to enter the province.