Delta Plane Crashes at Toronto Airport While Landing
A Delta Air Lines flight arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis appears to have overturned while landing on Monday afternoon, with photos across social media showing an airplane with its belly up on the tarmac.
The airport said on social media that all passengers and crew had been accounted for.
The airport said there had been “an incident upon landing involving a Delta Air Lines plane arriving from Minneapolis” and that emergency teams were responding.
Peel Region paramedics told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that eight people were injured.
The airport said earlier in the day that it was expecting “a busy day” after airlines were catching up after back-to-back snowstorms, including a weekend snowstorm that dumped more than eight inches of snow.
Temperatures in Toronto were expected to reach a high of only 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
The flight was operated by a Delta subsidiary, Endeavor Air, which typically runs smaller planes on shorter routes for its parent airline.
Endeavor’s fleet includes about 120 Bombardier CRJ-900’s, the type of plane involved in the crash on Monday. Those aircraft are configured with 70 or 76 seats.
The plane involved in the crash was configured with 76 seats, according to Cirium, an aviation data firm, though it was not immediately clear how many passengers and crew were on board.
The aircraft is about 16 years old, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. With regular maintenance, such passenger jets are often operated for two to three decades, or more.
This is a developing story.
Niraj Chokshi contributed reporting.
