First responders work on the Delta Air Traces aircraft crash web site at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada February 17, 2025.
Arlyn Mcadorey | Reuters
No less than 15 individuals had been injured after a Delta Air Traces regional jet crashed upon touchdown at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport Monday afternoon, officers stated.
All 80 individuals on board had been evacuated from the aircraft, a CRJ-900 regional jet, after the accident, which occurred at about 2:45 p.m. ET, the Federal Aviation Administration stated. Two individuals had been airlifted in essential situation, in keeping with Peel Regional Paramedic Companies.
Emergency crews had been responding on the scene and flights to the airport had been halted. Delta stated it’s conscious of the incident and that it’s “working to verify any particulars and can share essentially the most present data” on its information web site.
Delta Flight 4819 originated in Delta’s hub of Minneapolis–Saint Paul Worldwide Airport.
The Toronto airport stated it had been anticipating a busy day and a storm that dumped greater than 8 inches of snow on the area, with an anticipated 130,000 vacationers on board round 1,000 flights.
The Transportation Security Board of Canada will lead the crash investigation, the FAA stated.
The accident comes weeks after a deadly midair collision in January at Washington D.C.’s Reagan Worldwide Airport, which killed all 64 individuals on an American Airways regional jet and one other three individuals on board an Military Black Hawk helicopter.
The Federal Aviation Administration was additionally not too long ago hit by layoffs spearheaded by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity, with a number of hundred air site visitors controllers receiving firing notices over the weekend.
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