Passengers leave a Delta Air Lines CRJ-900 jet after crushed on landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on February 17, 2025 in a motionless image of the video.
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A Delta airlines The regional jet crashed on landing on Monday afternoon at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon and turned. The 80 people on board survived, officials said.
The 76 passengers and four crew members were evacuated from the plane, a regional jet of the CRJ-900, after the accident, occurring around 2:15 p.m., said Delta. According to the regional paramedical services of Peel, two people were transported by plane. Delta said on Tuesday morning that 19 of the 21 passengers who had been taken to local hospitals had been released.
The video on social networks seemed to show the plane by hitting the track, before the fire and the smoke emitted and the plane turns around.
Delta Flight 4819, operated by the regional subsidiary of the Endeavour Air carrier, is from Delta International Delta of Minneapolis – Paul.
Flights to Toronto airport were temporarily interrupted but resumed at 5 p.m. on Monday. Delta canceled the rest of its flights to Toronto on Monday and expressed travel derogations to affected passengers.
“Our most urgent priority remains to take care of all customers and Endeavour crew members who were involved,” Delta CEO, Ed Bastian said in a press release. “We are grateful to all the first stakeholders and medical teams who took care of them.”
A Delta Airlines plane is on its roof after crashed at landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto on February 17, 2025.
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Toronto airport said it expected a busy day and a storm that spilled more than 8 inches of snow in the region, with 130,000 travelers expected aboard around 1,000 flights.
He was not immediately clear which caused the accident. Weather reports showed winds between 20 mi / h and 30 mi / h on Monday, with gusts up to 40 MPH.
The Transport Security Council of Canada will investigate the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board said that a team of US investigators would participate in the investigation. American transport secretary, Sean Duffy, said on Social media platform X That FAA investigators were on the way to Toronto and that he worked with his Canadian counterparts to help the investigation.
Delta said he sent a team to Toronto airport on Monday evening, including specially trained employees to help customers, employees and endeavor to support the survey.
“Events like these remind us why our entire industry is united on the importance of security – this is the only area where we never compete,” Bastian told staff.
The accident comes from weeks after a Outdoor deadly collision In January at Reagan International Airport in Washington, DC, who killed the 64 people in a regional jet of American Airlines and three people aboard a Black Hawk Army Black helicopter.
Furthermore, the FAA was recently hit by layoffs Mergé by the advisory group of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, known as the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government, with several hundred air traffic controllers receiving dismissal notices during the weekend.
A spokesperson for the US Ministry of Transport told NBC News that the FAA “continued to hire and on board” air traffic controllers and that the agency has “kept employees” who fulfill critical security functions .
