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Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, ultimately landing upside down amid wintry conditions.
The FAA says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.
Peel Regional Paramedic Services confirmed to CBS News that 15 patients had been transported to the hospital. Out of those injuries, one child and two adults are critically injured. The rest of the injuries are minor to moderate, officials said.
All crew and passengers have been accounted for.
Not quite walked away. Nobody died on the scene, but two adults and a child were critically injured. Here’s hoping they recover from their injuries.
As to the cause, I can only speculate until the flight data is available, but I suspect it had something to do with the wind conditions. They were recording gust speeds up to 37 mph which is pretty high and at the very least could cause an uncomfortable landing. If they got a higher gust or the wind direction suddenly shifted, it could cause the plane to experience uneven lift. One wing goes high and the other dips. If this happens just as the plane is touching down it’s nearly impossible for the pilot to correct.
Winds were gusting to nearly 60 over in VT yesterday. I can’t wait to hear why the wing apparently failed (once it was gone it’s easy for a plane to invert one the runway like that.
Sounds like the hard landing might have broken it, but Bombardier is going to have some explaining to do, since it’s probably supposed to handle that