All the passengers and crews on a flight that crashed and overturned during landing at Toronto Pearson airport in Canada, the general manager of the airport said.
“We are very grateful that there has been no loss of life and relatively minor injuries,” said Deborah Flint of Greonto Airports Authority.
One child and two adults were seriously injured in the accident, according to emergency services. The images shared on social networks show that a plane returned and lying on its roof on the snowy tarmac. He seems to be missing at least a wing.
Toronto Pearson airport said the accident involved a flight from Delta Air Lines arriving from Minneapolis, and out of the 80 people on board, 76 were passengers and four were crews.
Eighteen passengers were transported to hospital in total.
Ontario Air Ambulance Service Ornge said he had Sending three air ambulance helicopters and two terrestrial ambulances on the stage.
Patients with critical injuries include a child, a man in sixties and a woman in his forties, he added.
In an evening briefing, Ms. Flint described the response by the “manual” of emergency staff and has credited them not to ensure loss of life.
The US Federal Aviation Authority said that the plane involved was Delta Air Lines flight 4819, operated by one of its subsidiaries, Endeavour Air.
Delta confirmed that an CRJ900 plane was involved in the incident around 2:15 p.m. (19:15 GMT) on Monday afternoon.
Twenty-two passengers are Canadian and the others are “multinational,” said Ms. Flint.
The airport was closed shortly after the incident, but the flights outside Toronto Pearson resumed the local time around 5:00 p.m., the airport said.
The Transport Security Council of Canada said it was deploying a team to “collect information and assess the occurrence”.
Two tracks will remain closed for several days for investigation and the passengers were invited to expect delays.
Toronto Pearson’s firefighters, Todd Aitken, said on Monday evening that even if it was at the start of the investigation, they could say that “the track was dry and that there was no wind conditions cross”.
This contradicts the previous gusts of wind gusts of more than 64 km / h (40 MPH) and a long -off wind.
Shared video sequences on social networks show people who come out of the overturned plane, with firefighters spraying it with foam.
“We are in Toronto, we have just landed. Our plane crashed, it is upside down,” said a man as he spun a video taken from outside the overturned plane.
The video shows that the passengers are helped to get out of the plane doors by the airport staff, some then escape from the entrance to the plane.
“Most people seem well. We all go down, there is smoke in progress,” it can be heard.
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said that provincial officials were in contact with the airport and local authorities and provide any necessary assistance.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was “grateful to the first stakeholders and professionals on the scene”.
After the accident, the airport’s arrival and departure councils showed dozens of delays and cancellations to flights.
Some passengers told the BBC that they were now stuck in Toronto for several days after the cancellation of their flights, with none Monday or Tuesday.
James and Andrea Turner were in customs – located just before the starting doors – when they were suddenly told to evacuate.
“They got rid of everyone from customs to security, then put everyone back in the general area,” said James, adding that the departure room was wrapped accordingly.
The couple was due to climbing the plane that crashed on the track. Their flight was then canceled – the third delay in their trip, after their previous trips were reprogrammed due to bad weather.
Toronto Pearson Airport had suffered delays related to weather in recent days, with strong snowfall and icy temperatures beating parts of Ontario.
Two storms – One Wednesday and a Sunday – covered the city with a total of 30 to 50 cm (11.8-19.6 inches) of snow.
The American partner of the BBC CBS reports that there was light snow falling at the time of the accident.
Earlier on Monday, the airport warned that “icy temperatures and the strong winds were advancing”.
He indicated that a “busy day” was expected, with airlines “catching up after the snowstorm this weekend which spilled more than 22 cm of snow at the airport”.
The accident is at least the fourth major aviation incident in North America in the last month – especially A deadly outdoor collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter Near the Washington DC Ronald Reagan airport, which killed the 67 people on board.
