The plane overturned while landing
All passengers and crew onboard a Delta Airlines plane that flipped upside down and crashed in Toronto on Monday (17 January) have survived, BBC reports.
“We are very grateful there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries,” Deborah Flint, of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, said.
Emergency services said one child and two adults, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s, were critically injured in the crash.
There were 76 passengers on board and four crew members, with 18 people being taken to hospital in total.
The Delta Airlines plane was a CRJ-900 flying from Minneapolis to Toronto Pearson airport.
The incident occurred at around 14:15 ET (19:15 GMT), and the airport closed shortly afterwards. Flights began to operate again from 17:00 ET, however.
Todd Aitken, Toronto Pearson fire chief, said that although it was still early in their investigations “the runway was dry and there was no cross-wind conditions”.
Aitken’s comments come in spite of earlier reports that there was gusts of more than 64km/h (40mph), as well as crosswinds.
Footage of the crash online showed passengers climbing out of the aircraft while fire services sprayed it with foam.
“We’re in Toronto, we just landed. Our plane crashed, it’s upside down,” one man said as he filmed people being helped out of the plane.
“Most people appear to be OK. We’re all getting off, there’s some smoke going on,” he added.
The news follows on from a spate of plane crashes in the United States.
The NTSB is currently investigating into multiple plane crashes in recent weeks across the US and North America.
This follows a fatal crash at Washington Reagan airport in which a CRJ-700 aircraft crashed in the air with a military helicopter, resulting in the deaths of 67 people.
