Passenger jet 'flips over' during landing in Toronto leaving 15 injured - with three critical

17 February 2025, 20:20 | Updated: 17 February 2025, 23:26

An airliner has overturned on arrival at Toronto's Pearson Airport, injuring at least fifteen people.

The airport confirmed on X that an "incident" occurred with the Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis and that all passengers and crew are accounted for.

One passenger is critically injured with others also hurt, paramedics said.

Photos from the airport have shown the plane flipped upside down in the snow.

Canada Police has said it does not know the circumstances surrounding the crash.

Video from the scene showed the plane upside down on the snowy tarmac as emergency workers hose it down. The plane was partly obscured by snow from a winter storm that hit Toronto over the weekend.

"Emergency teams are responding," the airport said in a post on the social platform X. "All passengers and crew are accounted for."

Delta said in a statement it was "aware of reports of Endeavor Flight 4819 operating from Minneapolis/St Paul to Toronto-Pearson International Airport as involved in an incident".

Ontario's premier Doug Ford said on X he was "relieved there are no casualties after the incident at Toronto Pearson".

"Provincial officials are in contact with the airport and local authorities and will provide any help that's needed," he added.

Toronto is the capital of Ontario province.

It is at least the fourth major aviation mishap in North America in the past month.

A commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided near Washington DC on January 29, killing 67 people, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground, and 10 were killed in a plane crash in Alaska.

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