All passengers and crew of flight, which crashed and overturned during landing at Toronto Airport in Canada, have survived, said the executive director of the airport.
“We are very grateful that there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries,” said Deborah Flint of the greater body for Toronto airports.
One child and two adults were critically injured in the crash, according to emergency services and images shared on social media, show that an airplane overturned and lying on its roof on the coated asphalt. It seems that at least one of his wings is missing.
Toronto Pearson Airport said the crash included a flight of Delta Air Lines, arriving from Mineapolis, with 80 people on board 76 passengers and four were crew.
Eighteen passengers were transported to a hospital in total, according to the airline.
Ontario Air Liculance Service Ornge said he had He sent three helicopters to the air ambulance and two land ambulances to the scene.
Patients with critical injuries include a child, a man of the 60s and a woman of their 40s, she added.
The president and CEO of Toronto Pieron Airport, Deborah Flint, at an evening briefing, called the answer from the emergency staff “textbook” and credits them that it helps to secure a loss of life.
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said the aircraft is Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, managed by one of its subsidiaries, Endeavor Air.
Delta confirmed that the CRJ900 aircraft was involved in the incident around 2:15 pm (19:15 GMT) on Monday afternoon.
Twenty-two of the passengers are Canadian, the rest are “multinational”, said Mrs. Flint.
The airport was closed shortly after the incident, but flights in and outside Toronto Pearson resumed around 5:00 pm local time, the airport said.
The Canada Transport Safety Council (TSB) stated that it had a team to “collect information and evaluate the event”.
Two tracks will remain closed for a few days for investigation and passengers are told to expect some delays.
Toronto Fire Chief Pearson Todd Aitken said on Monday night that it was at the beginning of the investigation, but they could say “The track was dry and there were no conditions for crosswind.”
This contradicts the worse reports of wind gusts over 40 miles/h (64 km/h) and a transverse wind.
Video footage shared on social media shows that people are getting on the overturned plane, with fire crews spraying it with foam.
“We're in Toronto, just as we landed. Our plane crashed, he's upside down,” a man said as he filmed a video made outside the inverted plane.
The video shows that passengers were assisted by the airplane doors by airport employees, some of which fled the airplane entrance.
“Most people look good. We all go down, there is some smoke,” he can hear him say.
Ontario Doug Ford Prime Minister said the provincial employees are in contact with the airport and local authorities and will provide any necessary help.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was “grateful for the first answers and professionals on stage.”
Following the crash, the arrival and departure tips showed dozens of delays and cancellation of flights.
Some passengers have told the BBC that they are now stuck in Toronto a few days after their flights canceled, and there will be no available on Monday or Tuesday.
James and Andrea Turner were in the customs – located just before the gates of departure – when they were suddenly told to evacuate.
“They got rid of all the customs to the security and then returned everyone to the common area,” James said, adding that the departure hall was crowded as a result.
The couple had to get on the plane, which crashed on the track. Their flight was then canceled – the third delay to their trip after their previous trips were deferred due to bad weather.
Toronto Piersson Airport has been delayed by time -related over the last few days, with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures that shake off Ontario parts.
Two storms – one on Wednesday and one on Sunday – covered the city with a total of 30-50 cm (11,8-19.6 inches) snow.
The BBC American partner reports that a slight snow fell during the crash.
Earlier on Monday, the airport warned that “frigid temperatures and high winds are moving.”
It says a “busy day” is expected, such as the airlines “catching up after the snowstorm, which dumped over 22 cm of snow at the airport.”
The crash is at least the fourth major aviation incident in North America in the last month – including A deadly collision in the air between a passenger plane and a military helicopter Near Ronald Reagan Airport of Washington, which died all 67 people on board.