All passengers and crew survive plane crash at Toronto airport
All passengers and crew on a flight which crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada have survived, the airport's chief executive has said.
All passengers and crew on a flight which crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada have survived, the airport's chief executive has said.life and relatively minor injuries," said Deborah Flint of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.
One child and two adults were critically injured in the crash, according to emergency services and images shared on social media show a plane flipped over and lying on its roof on the snow-covered tarmac. It appears to be missing at least one of its wings.Toronto Pearson Airport said the crash involved a Delta Air Lines flight arriving from Minneapolis, and of the 80 people on board, 76 were passengers and four were crew.
Eighteen passengers have been transported to hospital in total. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said provincial officials are in contact with the airport and local authorities and will provide any help that's needed.Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he was "grateful to the first responders and professionals on the scene".
After the crash, the airport's arrival and departure boards showed scores of delays and cancellations to flights. The couple had been due to board the plane that crashed on the runway. Their flight was then cancelled - the third delay to their trip, after their previous journeys were rescheduled due to bad weather.
Toronto Pearson Airport had been experiencing weather-related delays over the last few days, with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures battering parts of Ontario. Earlier on Monday, the airport warned that "frigid temperatures and high winds were moving in".
It said a "busy day" was expected, with airlines "catching up after this weekend's snowstorm which dumped over 22cm of snow at the airport"
