“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert mentioned the information is so grim proper now that it’s been a battle to search out the “mild” tales he and his workforce wish to characteristic on the prime of the present.
“Issues are tousled on the market. Do you need to know the way tousled issues are?” he requested. “The lightest story within the information is a aircraft crash. Everybody survived, although. That’s why it’s mild.”
He mentioned it wasn’t simply “mild” however a “miracle,” on condition that the aircraft burst into flames and flipped over because it landed in Toronto.
“Keep in mind the nice outdated days when it was simply doorways flying off the factor?” he requested. “I miss that.”
All 80 folks aboard DL 4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto survived Monday’s crash, though 21 had been injured and two stay within the hospital with accidents that Reuters described as not life-threatening.
The reason for the crash is below investigation.
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