Delta Plane Crashes and Overturns While Landing at Toronto Airport

A Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday afternoon, with photos showing the plane with its belly up on the tarmac.

Delta Flight 4819 crashed while landing around 2:45 p.m. local time, Federal Aviation Administration officials said in a statement, as powerful gusts of wind and drifting snow were reported in the area.

All 80 people onboard were evacuated, F.A.A. officials said, though the full extent of injuries was still uncertain.

Nine people were injured, including one who was critically hurt but whose injuries were not life-threatening who was airlifted to a trauma center, said Lawrence Saindon, a supervisor with the Peel Regional Paramedic Services. One pediatric patient was also in critical but non-life-threatening condition.
The remaining seven who were injured were taken to hospitals with minor-to-moderate injuries.

In a statement, Delta said it was aware of reports of the crash and was “working to confirm any details.” The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will lead the investigation, officials said.
The F.A.A. issued a ground stop advisory in response to the crash. Anita Anand, Canada’s transportation minister, said on social media that she was “closely following the serious incident.”

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According to the weather service of Environment Canada, there were strong winds coming from the west at about 29 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 38 m.p.h., at the time of the crash. It also reported drifting snow. Temperatures in Toronto were expected to reach a high of only 20 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.
The airport said earlier in the day that it was expecting “a busy day” as airlines caught up after back-to-back snowstorms, including a weekend snowstorm that dumped more than eight inches of snow.

The flight was operated by a Delta subsidiary, Endeavor Air, which typically runs smaller planes on shorter routes for its parent airline.

Endeavor’s fleet includes about 120 Bombardier CRJ-900s, the type of plane involved in the crash on Monday. Those aircraft are configured with 70 or 76 seats.

The aircraft is about 16 years old, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. With regular maintenance, such passenger jets are often operated for two to three decades, or more.
There are more than 380 CRJ-900s in use by airlines around the world, according to Cirium. The aircraft, which has been in operation for more than two decades, has a solid safety record, according to Cirium data.

The crash on Monday added to a spate of aviation accidents that have rattled travelers in recent weeks.

On Jan. 29, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet that was on its final approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, killing all 67 people on both aircraft.

The helicopter was on a training mission and was flying about 100 feet higher than authorized at the time of the collision, the nation’s deadliest aviation accident since 2009.
Two days later, a small medical plane carrying six people crashed near a shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia, killing all on board and one person on the ground.

On Feb. 2, a Delta flight from Minneapolis to Amsterdam returned to the Twin Cities because of a problem with the plane’s flaps, the television station KSTP reported. There were 272 passengers on that flight.

On Feb. 5, a Japan Airlines plane clipped a parked Delta Air Lines plane while taxiing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, impaling the tail of the Delta jet. No injuries were reported.