Incident involved Delta Airlines plane coming from Minneapolis, airport says

Toronto’s Pearson airport is responding to an emergency involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis Monday afternoon that crashed and flipped on its back.

Pearson airport’s runways are now closed until at least Tuesday, according to aviation officials.

The airport didn’t immediately provide further information on the nature of the emergency, but a photo submitted to CBC from a passenger shows a plane flipped on its back.

All passengers and crew are accounted for, the airport said in a post to X just before 3 p.m.

Peel Region paramedics say they are on the scene. They say one passenger has been critically injured and seven others were also hurt. A superintendent with the Peel Region paramedic service says all of the other roughly 80 passengers and crew are accounted for and not believed to be injured at this time.

I’m glad everyone survived hopefully the injured recover.

That’s wild, how does that even happen? Glad everyone is alive.

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For a plane to completely go over like that, I would have to think it was significantly overspeed…

Wind gusts were 51-65 km/h during the time of the accident. That definitely had something to do with it.

https://weather.gc.ca/past_conditions/index_e.html?station=yyz

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I either missed this, or is has been added to the article:

Audio recording from Pearson’s air traffic control tower shows that Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 was cleared to land shortly after 2 p.m. and that the tower warned the pilots of a possible air flow “bump” in the glide path from an aircraft in front of it, according to a report from The Canadian Press.

So wake turbulence could be a factor.

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The pilot was Australian.

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Has an accident like this ever occured before? A complete flip of an airplane? I’m surprised the injuries were so minimal considering the state that airplane is in.

Just goes to, unironically, show how safe flying usually is. If the plane you’re on flips all the way on it’s roof, and everyone gets out alive, and most if not all walking away… that’s pretty safe.

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Pretty sure the flip isn’t unprecedented, although coming out of it with a mostly intact fuselage, no deaths, and no plane-gutting fire might be. I’d guess that the plane had already shed a fair amount of speed as part of the landing process.

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I don’t think that’s gonna buff out.

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