What really happened to the Delta plane in Toronto?

A Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis made a rough landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, overturning onto its roof and injuring several passengers. 

The plane immobilized in this position provided stunning images, an accident that could have had far more serious consequences.

The plane, a Bombardier CRJ-900 belonging to Delta Airlines, was making a flight between Minneapolis and Toronto. 

It was carrying 80 people, including 76 passengers and 4 crew members. Among them, 22 were Canadian, while the others came from different countries.

The accident occurred on Monday around 2:30 PM, but no deaths have been reported. 21 people, including one child, were hospitalized, and 19 of them had already left the hospital by Tuesday morning.

Videos posted on social media show the plane overturned on the snowy tarmac, with passengers extricating themselves from the wreckage while firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames.

Another video shows the moment of the crash, where the airplane hits the runway, catches fire, emits a thick black smoke, and eventually flips over before coming to a stop.

Pearson Airport was experiencing difficult weather conditions with winds of 51 km/h, gusts up to 65 km/h, and a temperature of -8.6°C, making landing more complicated.

The exact cause of the crash has not yet been determined, but the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has opened an investigation to analyze the reasons for the accident.

The last major accident at Pearson dates back to 2005, when an Air France plane skidded off the runway in the rain and caught fire. All 309 passengers survived.

This incident is the fourth air crash in North America in three weeks, following a collision between a jet and a military helicopter in Washington, a medical crash in Philadelphia, and an accident in Alaska.