At least 18 people were injured Monday when a Delta Air Lines plane overturned upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
There were no fatalities and the injuries were relatively minor, officials said Monday evening.
Video posted on social media and broadcast from the airport showed a surreal scene — the plane flipped completely upside down as emergency workers evacuated passengers and attended to the crash site.
“We just landed. Our plane crashed. It’s upside down,” John Nelson, who recorded the video, said as he walked away from the plane. He said that “most people appear to be OK” and that passengers were getting off of the plane.
Toronto Pearson CEO Deborah Flint said that of those injured, none were in critical condition.
Earlier Monday, Lawrence Saindon, a superintendent for Peel Regional Paramedic Services, said 12 people were taken by ground for medical attention.
He said two others were were airlifted to a nearby trauma center.
One of those was reported to be a man in his 60s who was being taken to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, according to Joshua McNamara, corporate communications lead with Toronto Air Ambulance. The other was a woman in her 40s, who was being taken to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
Saindon also said an ambulance took a child to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, which was operated by Endeavor Air and was arriving from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, crashed on landing in Toronto around 2:15 p.m. Endeavor is a “wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines headquartered in Minneapolis,” Delta said.
