A Delta Air Lines plane has crashed and flipped when coming in to land in icy conditions at Toronto Pearson airport.
Vision from the aftermath of the crash shows passengers emerged from the wreck of the flipped jet. There are no reported fatalities at this stage.
“Toronto Pearson is aware of an incident upon landing involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis,” the airport said in a statement posted to ‘X’.
“Emergency teams are responding. All passengers and crew are accounted for.”
Dramatic video shared online shows the upturned plane on an icy runway with passengers emerging from the wreck.
“We’re in Toronto,” a disembarked passenger said.
“We just landed, our plane crashed it’s upside down fire department is on site. Upside down, everybody… Most people appear to be ok, we’re all getting off.”
The aircraft, a Mitsubishi CRJ900 (registration N932XJ), was flying from Minneapolis to Saint Paul International Airport. Early reports suggest the cause of the crash to be a flap actuator failure, resulting in a hard landing and overturning near the runway.
The aircraft, a 15.6-year-old CRJ900, has been part of Delta Connection since 2013 and is powered by two GE CF34-8C5 engines.
Updates to follow as investigations continue.
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