A Delta Airlines plane on Monday crashed ans flipped upside down upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The plane had 80 people on board. All were evacuated. Three people suffered serious injuries during the incident.
According to a report by the CBC, Toronto Pearson International Airport had earlier in the day announced that it “was expecting a busy day on Monday as airlines tried to catch up after 22 centimetres of snow fell over the weekend, causing a mass of delays and cancellations. More than 130,000 travellers were expected to board about 1,000 flights, it said in a post on Monday morning.”
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The Delta Airlines plane that was involved in the incident was a Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR. It has capacity for 95 seats and was built by Bombardier Inc. It has been registered to Delta since January 2010.
22 of the 76 passengers aboard the plane were Canadian. The others were from other countries.
The incident occurred less than three weeks after an American Airlines plane collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter while on approach to Washington DC’s Reagan National Airport.
