A Delta Air Lines Bombardier CRJ-900 regional aircraft with 80 people on board including crew members crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday afternoon.
Photos posted on ssocial media show the plane with its belly up on the tarmac.
Initial reports indicate that nine people were injured and that there were no fatalities. Two passengers, including a pediatric patient, were listed in critical condition but were expected to survive.
The incident was the seventh crash involving U.S. airlines since the January 29, 2025 fatal midair collision of American Airlines flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ700, with a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
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.
The flight departed Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport at 11:34 a.m. CST before crashing at 2:13 p.m. local time at Toronto Pearson.
On February 1, a Bering Air Cessna regional aircraft with 10 people on board including crew members went missing over the Bering Sea shortly before it was due to land. It was later locatedd at approximately 34 miles (54 km) southeast of Nome, the flight’s intended destination, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
An American Airlines regional flight operating by American Eagle and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided over and plunged into the Potomic River near Washington Ronald Reeagan National Airport on January 29 in which all 67 people on the two aircraft were killed. And on January 30, a Med Jets business jet with six people on board crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia in the overnight period. All six were killed.
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