15 people injured after Delta plane landing at Toronto airport overturns
Footage 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..NBC reported.
We just landed. Our plane crashed. It's upside-down," John Nelson, who took the video, said as he walked away from the plane. He noted that "most people appear to be OK" and that passengers were getting off of the plane.
All passengers and crew members have been accounted for, the airport said in a social media post.
Twelve of the injured sustained minor injuries and were transported by ground for medical attention, said Lawrence Saindon, a superintendent for Peel Regional Paramedic Services.
Two others were in critical condition and were airlifted to a nearby trauma center, Saindon said.
One of those is a male in his 60s who is being taken to St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, according to Joshua McNamara, corporate communications lead with Toronto Air Ambulance. The other is a female in her 40s and is being taken to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
Saindon said another among the injured, a child, was taken by ambulance to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, McNamara added.
The extent of the other injuries was unclear, but there were not believed to be any fatalities, according to Delta.
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 while landing in Toronto around 2:45 p.m. Endeavor is a "wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines headquartered in Minneapolis," Delta said.
