The plane from Minneapolis in the United States was crashed at the landing on Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday around 2.30 pm local time for an unclear reason and was reversed on the Tarmac.
This was Delta Connection Vlucht 4819, carried out by subsidiary Endeab Air, with a Mitsubishi CRJ-900 device built by Bombardier. There was no other device involved in the crash, reports airline Delta Airlines.
The emergency services, fire brigade and police arrived. According to rushed care providers, the device was on fire.
The authorities stated on Monday evening in a press conference that there are no deaths, but seventeen injured with “relatively minor injuries”. There is no knowledge of people with critical injuries, said CEO of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority Deborah Flint. Canadian media had previously said that three were injured in critical condition. It would be a child, a woman in the forty and a man in the sixty.
Around 4 pm (local time), according to the Federal Aviation Administration, all 80 passengers – 76 passengers and 4 crew members – were evacuated. There were 22 Canadians on board.
“Hobbel” in Glijpad
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has sent a team to the airport to investigate the incident, with the cooperation of the US National Transportation Safety Board.
According to The Canadian Press, sound recordings from the control tower show that air traffic leaders gave pilots permission to land, but warned of a possible “bump” in the air stream in the Glijpad, of an airplane in front. After that, there was reportedly no more communication with the Delta flight, until the traffic control confirmed that an airplane had crashed.
All flights deleted
All flights at Toronto airport were canceled for a while, reports CTV News. On the website of the airport there was almost every flight that was asked. Various flights were also indicated as canceled. The Federal Aviation Administration also announced after the crash that there is a ‘ground stop’, which meant that all planes had to stay on the ground.
Around 5 pm local time, aircraft could leave again and land from the airport.
On Monday morning the airport of Toronto Pearson posted another message on X after the intense snowfall of the past days: “Here is a look at the airport this morning while we continue to clear the snow after last weekend’s storm. Our teams worked all weekend to keep the 5 million square meters of the airport snow -free so that aircraft can safely arrive and leave. ”
The crash in Canada comes in the end of January after a few other recent crashes in North America. An army helicopter bumped into Washington on a passenger plane. In addition, 67 people died. When a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia at the beginning of February, seven people died. At the beginning of this month, ten people also died in Alaska after a aircraft from the American airline Bering Air crashed.