Aviation expert says airplane safety design saved lives on Delta Air Lines Flight 1849

U.S. Marine Corps Col. J. Joseph (Ret.) told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS safety designs on the plane that crashed last week in Toronto with 80 passengers and crew members on board probably saved “some lives that day.”

Col. Joseph told KSTP that the government does a survivability study after every airplane crash and shares that information with the makers and manufacturers of airliner passenger jets to help make improvements in the future.

“The genesis of all the safety features…