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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Delta plane flips on landing in Toronto

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26 days ago
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This image taken from video provided by CTV shows emergency crews responding at Toronto Pearson Airport after a plane crash, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (CTV via AP)

This image taken from video provided by CTV shows emergency crews responding at Toronto Pearson Airport after a plane crash, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (CTV via AP)

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A bad­ly in­jured child is among eight peo­ple who were hurt Mon­day when a Delta Air­lines plane flipped up­on ar­rival at Toron­to’s Pear­son Air­port.

The air­port con­firmed on X that an “in­ci­dent” oc­curred with the Delta flight from Min­neapo­lis and that all 80 pas­sen­gers and crew are ac­count­ed for. Three of the eight peo­ple hurt are crit­i­cal­ly in­jured, para­medics said. Delta said in a state­ment the ac­ci­dent hap­pened at 3:30 p.m.

Video from the scene shows the Mit­subishi CRJ-900LR up­side down on the snowy tar­mac as emer­gency work­ers hose it down. The plane was some­what ob­scured by snow from a win­ter storm that hit Toron­to over the week­end.

Ornge air am­bu­lance said it was trans­port­ing one pe­di­atric pa­tient to Toron­to’s Sick­Kids hos­pi­tal and two adults with crit­i­cal in­juries to oth­er hos­pi­tals in the city.

“Emer­gency teams are re­spond­ing,” the air­port said in a post on the so­cial plat­form X. “All pas­sen­gers and crew are ac­count­ed for.”

It is too ear­ly to say what caused the plane to flip but weath­er may have played a fac­tor. Ac­cord­ing to the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice of Cana­da, the air­port was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing blow­ing snow and winds of 32 mph (51 kph) gust­ing to 40 mph (65 kph). The tem­per­a­ture was about 16.5 de­grees Fahren­heit (-8.6 Cel­sius).

The U.S. Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion said in a state­ment that the Trans­porta­tion Safe­ty Board of Cana­da will head up the in­ves­ti­ga­tion and pro­vide any up­dates. The Na­tion­al Trans­porta­tion Safe­ty Board said it is lead­ing a team of U.S. in­ves­ti­ga­tors to as­sist in the Cana­di­an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

It is at least the fourth ma­jor avi­a­tion mishap in North Amer­i­ca in the past month. A com­mer­cial jet­lin­er and an Army he­li­copter col­lid­ed near the na­tion’s cap­i­tal on Jan. 29, killing 67 peo­ple. A med­ical trans­porta­tion plane crashed in Philadel­phia on Jan. 31, killing the six peo­ple on board and an­oth­er per­son on the ground and 10 were killed in a plane crash in Alas­ka.

Delta said in a state­ment that “ini­tial re­ports were that there are no fa­tal­i­ties.”

“Sev­er­al cus­tomers with in­juries were trans­port­ed to area hos­pi­tals. Our pri­ma­ry fo­cus is tak­ing care of those im­pact­ed,” the air­line added.

On­tario’s Pre­mier Doug Ford said on X he is “re­lieved there are no ca­su­al­ties af­ter the in­ci­dent at Toron­to Pear­son.” Toron­to is the cap­i­tal of On­tario.

“Provin­cial of­fi­cials are in con­tact with the air­port and lo­cal au­thor­i­ties and will pro­vide any help that’s need­ed,” Ford said.

En­deav­or Air, based in Min­neapo­lis, is a sub­sidiary of Delta Air Lines and the world’s largest op­er­a­tor of CRJ-900 air­craft. The air­line op­er­ates 130 re­gion­al jets on 700 dai­ly flights to over 126 cities in the U.S., Cana­da and the Caribbean, ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny’s web­site.

The CRJ900, a pop­u­lar re­gion­al jet, was de­vel­oped by Cana­di­an aero­space com­pa­ny Bom­bardier. It’s in the same fam­i­ly of air­craft as the CRJ700, the type of plane in­volved in the mid-air col­li­sion near Rea­gan Na­tion­al Air­port on Jan. 29.

TORON­TO (AP) —

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