Paramedics say at least 15 people were injured when a Delta Air Lines plane arriving from Minneapolis crashed at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Monday. Of them, one child and two adults were critically injured, CP24 reports. The aircraft flipped on its back in the crash, reports the CBC. In air traffic control audio, the pilot of a medical helicopter can be heard saying the aircraft is "upside down and burning," CNN reports. In a post on X, the airport said it was "aware of an incident upon landing involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis. Emergency teams are responding. All passengers and crew are accounted for."
Aviation consultant Scott Hamilton tells the Toronto Star that it's "extremely rare" for a plane to flip during a landing. "Over the decades, there have been a number of incidents," he says. "Not many though, and some have been survivable while some have not." Hamilton notes that videos show at least one wing came off the plane. "The fact that the wing separated and the fuel spill did not create a conflagration is, in my opinion, a miracle," he says. Experts believe weather could have been a factor, with blowing snow and wind gusts of up to 40mph at the time of the crash, the AP reports. The crash follows days of heavy snowfall in the Toronto area.
In a post on X earlier Monday, the airport said: "The snow has stopped coming down, but frigid temperatures and high winds are moving in. Today, we're expecting a busy day in our terminals with over 130,000 travellers on board around 1,000 flights." The plane, a Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR carrying around 80 people, crashed around 2:15pm Eastern. Just before 4pm, the airport announced that all flights had been suspended, the Hamilton Spectator reports. Flights resumed around an hour later. The US Federal Aviation Administration said it would send a team to assist Canadian investigators. This story has been updated with new details and developments. (More plane crash stories.)
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