There were several injuries after a Delta Air Lines flight from Minnesota crashed and caught fire upon landing in Canada Monday, local police said.
Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, crashed while landing at a snowy Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada around 2:15 p.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a preliminary statement.
The CRJ-900 departed Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, the FAA said.
“Toronto Pearson (airport) is aware of an incident upon landing involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis. Emergency teams are responding. All passengers and crew are accounted for,” a post on X from the airport said just before 3 p.m. ET.
Nineteen people were taken to area hospitals, Delta said. Two people were airlifted to Toronto trauma centers and one pediatric patient was taken to a children’s hospital.
The pediatric patient, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s suffered critical injuries, local health officials said.
At this time, none of the injuries are considered to be life-threatening, Peel Regional Paramedic Services said. Officials said others suffered moderate to mild injuries. Sources said about 3:40 p.m. ET all 80 people had evacuated from the plane. There were 76 passengers and four crew members, Delta said in a statement.
Toronto Pearson’s president said during a news conference Monday evening that among those 76 passengers, 22 were Canadian, and the other passengers were multinational.
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