The first to respond work at the Delta Air Lines plane crash site at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, February 17, 2025.
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At least 15 people were injured after a Delta airlines The regional plane crashed when landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, authorities said.
The 80 people on board, 76 passengers and four crew members, were evacuated from the plane, a CRJ-900 regional plane, after the accident, which occurred around 2:45 pm et, said the federal aviation administration. Two people were transferred by plane in a critical condition, according to Peel regional paramedic services.
The emergency teams responded on the scene. The airport flights stopped temporarily but resumed from 5 pm et.
Delta said in a statement that he was canceling the rest of his flights to and from Toronto on Monday and broadcasting travel exemptions to affected passengers.
“The hearts of the entire Global Delta family are with those affected by today's incident at Toronto-Pearson International Airport,” said the CEO of Delta, Ed Bastian, in the statement. “I want to express my thanks to the many members of the Delta and Endeavour team and the first to respond on the site.”
Delta Flight 4819, operated by the Regional Subsidiary of the Endeavour carrier, originated in the Delta downtown of the Minneapolis International Airport – Saint Paul.
Toronto Airport said he had waited for an busy day and a storm that threw more than 8 inches of snow in the region, with 130,000 expected travelers aboard around 1,000 flights.
Meteorological reports showed a wind between 20 mph and 30 mph on Monday, with bursts up to 40 mph.
The Canada Transport Security Board will lead the accident investigation, said FAA. The Secretary of Transportation of the United States, Sean Duffy, said in a publication on social networks X that FAA researchers were on their way to Toronto and is working with their Canadian counterparts to help in the investigation.
The accident occurs weeks after a fatal collision in the air in January at the Reagan International Airport of Washington DC, which killed the 64 people on a regional American Airlines plane and three other people aboard a Black Hawk helicopter from the army .
Separately, the FAA was recently reached by dismissals headed by President Donald Trump and the Efficient Efficiency Department of Elon Musk, with several hundred air traffic controllers who received shot notices during the weekend.
A spokesman for the United States Department of Transportation told NBC News that FAA “continues to hire” air traffic controlle and that the agency has “retained employees” that they perform critical security functions.
