A Delta Air Traces flight arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis seems to have overturned whereas touchdown on Monday afternoon, with pictures throughout social media displaying an airplane with its stomach up on the tarmac.
The airport said on social media that each one passengers and crew had been accounted for.
The airport stated there had been “an incident upon touchdown involving a Delta Air Traces airplane arriving from Minneapolis” and that emergency groups have been responding.
Peel Area paramedics told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that eight folks have been injured.
The airport stated earlier within the day that it was expecting “a busy day” after airways have been catching up after back-to-back snowstorms, together with a weekend snowstorm that dumped more than eight inches of snow.
Temperatures in Toronto have been anticipated to achieve a excessive of solely 20 levels Fahrenheit.
The flight was operated by a Delta subsidiary, Endeavor Air, which generally runs smaller planes on shorter routes for its dad or mum airline.
Endeavor’s fleet contains about 120 Bombardier CRJ-900’s, the kind of airplane concerned within the crash on Monday. These plane are configured with 70 or 76 seats.
The airplane concerned within the crash was configured with 76 seats, in response to Cirium, an aviation knowledge agency, although it was not instantly clear what number of passengers and crew have been on board.
The plane is about 16 years outdated, in response to Federal Aviation Administration data. With common upkeep, such passenger jets are sometimes operated for 2 to a few a long time, or extra.
This can be a growing story.
Niraj Chokshi contributed reporting.
