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A Delta Air Ligne plane has a crash plan and overturned Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, the last aviation accident involving a regional jet operated by an American carrier.
The Federal Adviation Administration of the United States said that Delta Flight 4819 “crushed by landing” on Monday afternoon. The Bombardier CRJ-900 plane is from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, a Delta Hub.
“The 80 people on board were evacuated,” said FAA. Delta said the plane transported 76 passengers and four crew members.
Photos and videos of the scene showed the belly lying plane on a snowy tarmac and swept by the wind. Heavy snow fell into the Toronto region during the weekend, with about 25 cm on the ground.
Toronto officials said the accident was investigated and refused to speculate. But “what we can say is that the track was dry,” said the firefighters at Todd Aitken airport, adding that there was no “windbreak conditions”.
He said 19 injured passengers had been taken to hospitals. The officials said one of these passengers was a child and that two patients were to be transported by air ambulance.
There was “no death” and none of the patients has undergone deadly injuries, according to Lawrence Saindon, a superintendent of the regional paramedical services of Peel. “All the other patients are light to injury to injury on foot,” he added.
Canadian and American investigators are investigating the accident, officials said.
Mhi RJ Aviation, who acquired the Bombardier’s CRJ series of aircraft and support operations, said she would cooperate in the investigation.
The accident interrupted the flights to and from Pearson for more than two hours, although they resumed around 5 p.m. Nearly 600 flights have been canceled or delayed, depending on the Flightaware follow -up site.
Delta canceled all its flights to the airport for the rest of Monday.
The incident occurs less than three weeks after an outdoor collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an American helicopter Black Hawk, just outside Washington, killed 67 people while the commercial plane approached the ‘National Reagan airport.
American Airlines’ plane was a smaller member of the CRJ planes stable.
American federal investigators said on Friday that the Black Hawk cockpit could have received “bad data”, which means that the crew could have considered inaccurate altitude readings.
It is also possible that the helicopter pilots, who were on a test flight of night vision glasses, might not have heard critical instructions in air traffic control.
President Donald Trump blamed Democrats and diversity, equity and inclusion policies for Washington’s collision.
