Incident involved Delta Airlines plane coming from Minneapolis, airport says

Toronto’s Pearson airport is responding to an emergency involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis Monday afternoon that crashed and flipped on its back.

Pearson airport’s runways are now closed until at least Tuesday, according to aviation officials.

The airport didn’t immediately provide further information on the nature of the emergency, but a photo submitted to CBC from a passenger shows a plane flipped on its back.

All passengers and crew are accounted for, the airport said in a post to X just before 3 p.m.

Peel Region paramedics say they are on the scene. They say one passenger has been critically injured and seven others were also hurt. A superintendent with the Peel Region paramedic service says all of the other roughly 80 passengers and crew are accounted for and not believed to be injured at this time.

  • Sturgist
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    2 days ago

    Just goes to, unironically, show how safe flying usually is. If the plane you’re on flips all the way on it’s roof, and everyone gets out alive, and most if not all walking away… that’s pretty safe.