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A Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people onboard crash-landed Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday, flipping upside down and leaving at least 18 people injured, but miraculously no fatalities.
It is still unclear how the aeroplane was upended, leaving it streaked with black residue and broken off a wing tip. Inside, seat-belted passengers were suspended from their seats.
Passengers evacuated the upside-down CRJ900 as first responders doused its fuselage with foamy fire retardant. Evacuees had to jump from the plane’s exit doors and stumbled across the slick tarmac clutching jackets and small carry-on bags.
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Strong winds had been buffeting Toronto all day and airport personnel had worked through the night to clear the approximately 20 centimetres of snow that blanketed the airport over the weekend.
As the plane neared the airport, air traffic controllers notified pilots of about 60 kph wind gusts. “Might be a slight bump in the glide path,” an air traffic worker said.
Canadian and American investigators will now work to determine what upended the plane.
There have been 87 aviation accidents in 2025 so far, according to data from the US National Transportation Safety Board. That includes 62 incidents in January and 25 in February, the agency said.
[Source: CNN]
