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A Delta Air Lines plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, the latest aviation incident involving a regional jet operated by a US carrier.
The US Federal Aviation Administration said that Delta flight 4819 “crashed while landing” at the Toronto airport at about 2.45pm local time. The CRJ-900 aircraft originated from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, a Delta hub.
“All 80 people on board were evacuated,” the FAA said.
Photos and videos from the scene showed the aeroplane lying belly-up on a snowy, windswept tarmac.
Officials said the local paramedic service had treated and transported 15 patients, including one child, to local hospitals. Two patients had to be transported by air ambulance.
There were “no fatalities” and none of the patients had life-threatening injuries, according to Lawrence Saindon, superintendent with Peel Regional Paramedic Services. “All other patients are mild to walking-wounded injuries,” he added.
Delta said it “is aware of reports of Endeavor Flight 4819 operating from Minneapolis-St Paul to Toronto-Pearson International Airport was involved in an incident”. Endeavor Air is a wholly-owned Delta subsidiary.
The Canadian incident comes less than three weeks after a mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a US military Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people as the commercial plane approached Reagan National Airport just outside Washington.
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