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    Toronto Airport Chief Handles Crash

    Aug. 3, 2005
    "The more realistic you can make your training the better you will do when the real thing hits."
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    It was the big one, in this case the biggest he has seen so far. Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Toronto Pearson International Airport Fire Chief Mike Figliola was working on budget items when Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A340 with 309 passengers and crew ran off the runway, crashed in a ravine and caught fire.

    In 52 seconds, the first of Figliola

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