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also, todd akin, the toronto airport fire chief, said after they put out those fires, he was asked, you know, what did you do then to try to get the passengers off? and he said, actually, the passengers, almost all of them were able to self evacuate and then they were escorted away. so that was a pretty pertinent development in the accounts of what happened there. uh, right after the crash, the passengers, according to todd akin, actually most of them self-evacuated from the plane when it came to a stop. uh deborah flint. the president and ceo of the toronto pearson international airport in this news conference yesterday. i mean, this morning, officials would not say whether the weather actually played a role in the crash. but here's what she had to say about the snow systems that came in through this airport, through the toronto area a couple of days before the crash. >> from last thursday to sunday. toronto pearson saw extreme conditions two separate snowstorms on thursday and sunday. we got more than 20in, 50cm of accumulated snow. that is actually not typical. in fact, it is more sn

and we also heard from the airport fire chief todd akin, that there were some spot fires that they hadto put out some small fires, and you could see the foam and water trucks there, and they they were able to spray while they're moving, which is so critical at an airport like this. pretty incredible. the other thing that we also heard, and this is something where, uh, the officials of the airport are kind of not wanting to touch the third rail here, but they are sort of hinting at it is that there was an extreme weather event there at toronto pearson, and they had on the thursday and sunday before this crash on monday, 50cm of snow. that's about 20in. we're talking just under two feet. so they said that was totally abnormal. they would not really touch the questions about the conditions of the runway and the blowing snow at the time, but the video really tells the story. you can see the blowing snow across the runway there. and investigators will, of course, want to know if that impacted the pilots ability to see the runway, their depth, depth perception, their ability to flare and rou