All passengers and crew were accounted for, according to the airport.
A Delta Air Lines flight crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday — with images showing the mangled airliner smoldering on the snowy runway as dazed passengers scrambled out.
Flight records identify the craft as Delta Flight 4819, which took off from Minneapolis at about 11:47 a.m. The crash happened just before 3 p.m.
The belly-up jet looked badly damaged in photos and video circulating on social media, with one wing severely crumpled and the tail section partially sheared off.
The Delta flight could be seen upside down on Monday.
At least eight people have been reported injured so far, according to CP24 News
It was not immediately clear whether there were any fatalities on board, but Toronto Pearson posted on X soon after the crash that “all passengers and crew members were accounted for.”
Airport staff told CTV News that the airport had shut down all arrivals and departures in the wake of the crash.
Dramatic video posted on Facebook by a passenger shows firefighters, paramedics and other emergency personnel frantically making their way across the snow-swept runway to the upside-down plane.
First responders at the scene of the plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
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At least eight people were reported injured in the crash so far.
REUTERS/Arlyn McAdorey
Constable Sarah Patten of the Peel Regional Police in Ontario told Reuters, “It is my understanding that most of the passengers are out and unharmed but we’re still trying to make sure so we’re still on scene investigating.”
The Association of Flight Attendants union confirmed reports in a post on X that there were “no fatalities” in the incident.
The plane is a Bombardier CRJ-900LR, which can seat up to 88 passengers and four crew, according to flight records.
The crash followed a weekend winter storm in the area which dumped nearly nine inches of snow on the airport, forcing crews to work overnight Sunday to clear key runways.
It’s the first major incident involving a commercial passenger jet since the Jan. 29 crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines flight 5342 at Ronald Reagan National Airport, in which 67 passengers and crew were killed.
