Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday afternoon at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, ultimately landing upside down amid wintry conditions.
The Federal Aviation Administration says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.
Peel Regional Paramedic Services confirmed to CBS News that 15 patients had been transported to the hospital. Out of those injuries, one child and two adults are critically injured. The rest of the injuries are minor to moderate, officials said. I've just arrived a Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 3, where Delta Airlines flies out from.The departures and arrivals halls are both filled with people whose flights were just delayed or cancelled.
Some passengers tell me that they are now stuck in Toronto for several days, with no flights out tonight or tomorrow available. The departures monitor is covered with a bulletin that reads: “Due to operational reasons expect delays.”
James and Andrea Turner from the Toronto area tell me that they were scheduled to take a Delta flight out tonight - the same one that had crashed on the runway.
They say they were in customs - located right before the gates - when they were suddenly asked to evacuate. “They got rid of everybody from customs to security, and then put everybody back to the general area,” James tells me, adding the
