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A Delta Air Lines plane crashed and crashed upside down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, the latest aviation accident involving a regional aircraft operated by a US carrier.
The American Aviation Federal Administration said Delta Flight 4819 “collapsed as it sat” on Monday afternoon. The CRJ-900 Bombardier Aircraft originated from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, a Delta center.
“All 80 people on board were evacuated,” Faa said. Delta said the plane wore 76 passengers and four crew members.
Pictures and videos from the scene showed that the aircraft lying on the belly in a snowy, windy tarmas. Heavy snow fell into the area of Toronto over the weekend, with approximately 25 cm on the ground.
Toronto officials said the cause of the accident was under investigation and refused to speculate. But “what we can say is that the track was dry,” said Todd Aitken Airport Fire Chief, adding that there were no “intersection conditions”.
He said 19 injured passengers were sent to hospitals. Officials said one of those passengers was a child and that two patients had to be transported from the air ambulance.
There were no “fatalities” and none of the patients had life -threatening injuries, according to Lawrence Saindon, a supervisor with PEEL regional paramedic services. “All other patients are gentle for injuries injured in the legs,” he added.
Canadian and American investigators will investigate the accident, officials said.
MHI RJ Aviation, who won the CRJ aircraft series and bombarder supporting operations in 2020, said he would cooperate with the investigation.
The crash banned flights to Pearson for more than two hours, though they resumed around 5pm. Almost 600 flights were canceled or delayed, according to the Fliffaware site tracking.
Delta canceled all her flights to the airport for the remainder of Monday.
The incident comes less than three weeks after a middle collision between a American Airlines regional aircraft and a US military helicopter Hawk, only outside Washington killed 67 people while the trade aircraft approached the reagan national airport.
The American Airlines aircraft was a smaller member of stable CRJ aircraft.
US federal investigators on Friday said the Black Cabin of the Hawk could have received “bad data”, which means the crew could have viewed incorrect height readings.
Also possible that the pilots in the helicopter, who were on a flight of Goggle Night Vision, may not have heard critical instructions from air traffic control.
President Donald Trump blamed Democrats and diversity, equality and involvement policies for Washington’s clash.
